, down to earth language, explain them
in this manner.
The first letter, JOD in the name of GOD is a hand or a seed, not just a
hand, but the hand of the director. If there is one organ of man that dis -
criminates and sets him apart from the entire world of creation it is his
hand. What we call a hand in the anthropoid ape is not a hand. It is used
only for the purpose of conveying food to the mouth, or to swing branch
to branch. Man's hand fashions, it molds. You cannot really express your -
self without the hand. This is the builder's hand, the hand of the director;
it directs and molds, and builds within your world.
The ancient story-tellers called the first letter JOD, the hand, or the abso -
lute seed out of which the whole of creation will come.
To the second letter, HE, they gave the symbol of a window. A window is
an eye – the window is to the house what the eye is to the body.
The third letter, VAU, they called a nail. A nail is used for the purpose of
binding things together. The conjunction “and” in the Hebraic tongue is
simply the third letter, or VAU. If I want to say'man and woman', I put
the VAU in the middle, it binds them together.
The fourth and last letter, HE, is another window or eye.
In this modern, down to earth language of ours, you can forget eyes and
windows and hands and look at it in this manner. You are seated here
now. This first letter, JOD, is your I Amness, your awareness. You are
aware of being aware – that is the first letter. Out of this awareness all
states of awareness come.
The second letter, HE, called an eye, is your imagination, your ability to
perceive. You imagine or perceive something which seems to be other
than Self. As though you were lost in reverie and contemplated mental
states in a detached manner, making the thinker and his thoughts sepa -
rate entities.
The third letter, VAU, is your ability to feel that you are that which you de -
sire to be. As you feel you are it, you become aware of being it. To walk
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenas though you were what you want to be is to take your desire out of the
imaginary world and put the VAU upon it. You have completed the drama
of creation. I am aware of something. Then I become aware of actually
being that of which I was aware.
The fourth and last letter in the name of God is another HE, another eye,
meaning the visible objective world which constantly bears witness of that
which I am conscious of being. You do nothing about the objective world;
it always molds itself in harmony with that which you are conscious of be -
ing.
You are told this is the name by which all things are made, and without it
there is nothing made that is made. The name is simply what you have
now as you are seated here. You are conscious of being, aren't you? Cer -
tainly you are. You are also conscious of something that is other than
yourself: the room, the furniture, the people.
You may become selective now. Maybe you do not want to be other than
what you are, or to own what you see. But you have the capacity to feel
what it would be like were you now other than what you are. As you as -
sume that you are that which you want to be, you have completed the
name of God or the JOD HE VAU HE. The final result, the objectification of
your assumption, is not your concern. It will come into view automatically
as you assume the consciousness of being it.
Now let us turn to the Son's name, for he gives the Son dominion over
the world. You are that Son, you are the great Joshua, or Jesus, of the
Bible. You know the name Joshua or Jehoshua we have Anglicized as Je -
sus.
The Son's name is almost like the Father's name. The first three letters of
the Father's name are the first three letters of the Son's name, JOD HE
VAU, then you add a SHIN and an AYIN, making the Son's name read,
JOD HE VAU SHIN AYIN.
You have heard what the first three are: JOD HE VAU. JOD means that
you are aware; He means that you are aware of something; and VAU
means that you became aware of being that of which you were aware.
You have dominion because you have the ability to conceive and to be -
come that which you conceive. That is the power of creation.
But why is a SHIN put in the name of the Son? Because of the infinite
mercy of our Father.  Mind you, the Father and the Son are one. But when
the Father becomes conscious of being man he puts within the condition
called man that which he did not give unto himself. He puts a SHIN for
this purpose; a SHIN is symbolized as a tooth.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenA tooth is that which consumes, that which devours. I must have within
me the power to consume that which I now dislike. I, in my ignorance,
brought to birth certain things I know dislike and would like to leave be -
hind me. Were there not within me the flames that would consume it, I
would be condemned forever to live in a world of all my mistakes. But
there is a SHIN, or flame, within the name of the Son, which allows that
Son to become detached from states HE formerly expressed within the
world. Man is incapable of seeing other than the contents of his own con -
sciousness.
If I now become detached in consciousness from this room by turning my
attention away from it, then, I am no longer conscious of it. There is
something in me that devours it within me. It can only live within my ob -
jective world if I keep it alive within my consciousness.
It is the SHIN, or a tooth, in the Son's name that gives him absolute do -
minion. Why could it not have been in the Father's name? For this simple
reason: nothing can cease to be in the Father. Even the unlovely things
cannot cease to be. If I once give it expression, forever and ever it re -
mains locked within the dimensionally greater Self which is the Father. But
I would not like to keep alive within my world all of my mistakes. So I, in
my infinite mercy gave to myself, when I became man, the power to be -
come detached from these things that I, in my ignorance, brought to birth
in my world.
These are the two names which give you dominion. You have dominion if,
as you walk the earth, you know that your consciousness if God, the one
and only reality. You become aware of something you would like to ex -
press or possess. You have the ability to feel that you are and possess
that which but a moment before was imaginary. The final result, the em -
bodying of your assumption, is completely outside of the offices of a
three-dimensional mind. It comes to birth in a way that no man knows.
If these two names are clear in your mind's eye, you will see that they are
your eternal names. As you sit here, you are this JOD HE VAU HE, you are
the JOD HE VAU SHIN AYIN.
The stories of the Bible concern themselves exclusively with the power of
imagination. They are really dramatizations of the technique of prayer, for
prayer is the secret of changing the future. The Bible reveals the key by
which man enters a dimensionally larger world for the purpose of chang -
ing the conditions of the lesser world in which he lives.
A prayer granted implies that something is done in consequence of the
prayer, which otherwise would not have been done. Therefore, man is the
spring of action, the directing mind, and the one who grants the prayer.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThe stories of the Bible contain a powerful challenge to the thinking ca -
pacity of man. The underlying truth – that they are psychological dramas
and not historical facts – demands reiteration, inasmuch as it is the only
justification for the stories. With a little imagination we may easily trace
the psychological sense in all the stories of the Bible.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness; and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own im -
age, in the image of God created he him.” (Gen 1:26, 27).
Here in the first chapter of the Bible the ancient teachers laid the founda -
tion that God and man are one, and that man has dominion over all the
earth. If God and man are one, then God can never be so far off as even
to be near, for nearness implies separation.
The question arises: What is God? God is man's consciousness, his aware -
ness, his I Amness. The drama of life is a psychological one in which we
bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts. The


allow
us
to
act
especially
on
the
large
intestine.
Drink
and
enema,
applied
together,
they
heal
the
entire
digestive
tract.
Urine
and
its
various
variants
(evaporated,
children's,
activated,
saturated
with
minerals,
pregnancy,
etc.)
is
the
best
means
for
enemas.
First
of
all,
it
meets
the
main
criterion
-
safety,
its
use
practically
excludes
the
possibility
of
overdose.
Second,
it
disinfects
the
colon
without
irritating
its
walls.
Thirdly,
it
adjusts
the
pH
of
the
environment
in
a
natural
way
and
suppresses
the
pathogenic
microflora
of
the
colon
without
affecting
the
healthy
one.
Fourth,
thanks
to
osmosis,
it
absorbs
water
into
the
intestine
and
thus
cleans
its
walls.
Fifth,
with
its
anti-inflammatory
properties,
it
perfectly
restores
the
mucosa
damaged
by
colitis
(inflammation)
or
other
diseases.
Sixth,
the
urine
radically,
but
at
the
same
time,
gently
expels
all
parasites
from
the
large
intestine
(polyps,
worms).
Seventhly,
if
you
have
cleansed
the
thick
with
the
help
of
urine
enemas
intestine
and
adjusted
its
activity,
you
have
greatly
increased
your
own
energy,
strengthened
your
immune
(defensive)
system
and
thus
extended
their
lives.
Methods
of
using
urine
by
enema
1)
To
cleanse
the
colon.
It
is
best
to
start
these
procedures
with
your
own
urine.
Before
use,
you
heat
it
up
and
boil
the
old
one
and
cool
it
down
to
body
temperature.
Since
urine
enemas
are
very
effective,
the
doses
of
urine
should
not
be
too
large,
from
500
to
1000
grams
of
urine
per
procedure.
I
do
enemas
daily
(especially
now
in
Yemen)
from
the
urine
collected
for
awhole
24
hours
(it
contains
all
the
supporting
and
healing
substances),
which
is
usually
more
than
two
liters.
Normally,
however,
after
10
-
15
procedures
that
you
do
every
other
day,
it
is
effective
to
perform
the
same
amount
of
enemas
with
evaporated
urine,
half
or
quarter
according
to
tolerance.
Again,
you
can
increase
the
doses
gradually,
from
100
to
500
grams
by
adding
50-100
grams
with
each
procedure.
When
you
reach
a
dose
of
500
grams,
you
start
reducing
the
amount
in
reverse
order.
Furthermore,
similar
enemas
must
be
done
with
different
types
of
urine
depending
on
the
state
of
health
and
in
accordance
with
the
lunar
cycle
(on
special
days
of
the
second
and
fourth
phases).
Urine
can
be
saturated
with
salts
and
trace
elements,
e.g.
from
seaweed.
Urine
can
also
be
diluted
with
herbal
tea,
the
more
you
use
the
better.
See
the
chapters
on
herbs
and
baths
in
my
book
Doctor
Yourself.
2)
To
heal
the
body
and
nourish
it
with
minerals
and
trace
elements,
to
increase
energy.
For
this
purpose,
make
small
enemas
with
a
balloon
of
20
-
50
grams,
which
can
contain
decoctions
of
herbs,
fruits,
seaweed
and
similar
ingredients.
If
you
overdo
it
dosage,
you
simply
cannot
hold
urine,
it
acts
as
a
laxative.
3)
K
elimination
of
polyps,
parasites
and
various
problems
and
diseases
of
the
large
intestine
use
option
1.
4)
To
prevent
constipation,
stimulate
and
restore
peristalsis
of
the
large
intestine.
Use
micro-enemas
of
evaporated
quarter
urine
100
grams
every
other
day
until
normal
stools
appear.
Pay
attention
to
diet
and
lifestyle.
You
need
to
eliminate
the
cause
of
the
constipation.
If
so
won't
happen,
the
enemas
will
only
have
a
temporary
effect.
There
is
no
need
to
be
afraid
of
enemas
with
evaporated
urine,
it
is
a
natural
remedy
that
does
not
disturb
the
body's
functions
and
does
not
lead
to
habituation.
I
have
tried
this
100%.
After
several
years
of
regular
enemas,
I
have
stools
like
never
before.
In
the
same
way,
many
of
my
acquaintances
praise
the
improved
peristalsis
and
the
elimination
of
constipation.
Notice:
do
not
overdo
strong
cleansing
enemas
with
evaporated
urine
(option
1).
Very
they
strongly
stimulate
the
energy
of
the
body
and
push
it
down.
If
you
suffer
from
hemorrhoids,
the
hemertoid
nodules
could
be
bulging.
Moderate
use
of
an
enema,
on
the
other
hand,
treats
hemorrhoids
very
reliably.
Intake
of
urine
through
the
nose
The
neti
yoga
cleansing
procedure
-
washing
the
nasopharynx
with
urine
-
is
a
very
powerful
healing
agent
means.
The
area
of
  the
nose
is
densely
interwoven
with
nerves,
which
ensure
the
reflex
connection
of
the
mucous
membrane
with
all
the
organs
of
the
body.
Irritation
of
various
parts
of
the
nasal
mucosa
affects
the
functions
of
individual
organs
and
systems
as
well
as
the
organism
as
a
whole.
In
this
connection,
at
the
beginning
of
the
20th
century,
the
so-called
intranasal
therapy
method
was
created,
which
consisted
in
moxibustion
(heating)
of
individual
points
of
the
nasal
mucosa
and
thereby
stimulating
certain
functions
of
the
body.
In
addition,
the
olfactory
receptors
are
closely
connected
to
the
hypothalamus,
which
together
with
the
pituitary
gland
controls
most
endocrine
glands.
When
we
suck
in
urine
through
the
nose,
the
substances
contained
in
it
-
hormones,
enzymes,
amines,
urea,
salts,
correction
substances,
various
residual
substances
-
irritate
the
olfactory
cells
and
the
mucous
membrane
of
the
nose.
This
then
specifically
affects
the
pituitary
gland.
In
addition,
substances
contained
in
urine
are
able
to
penetrate
the
brain
through
the
olfactory
bone
and
affect
the
brain
directly.
Furthermore,
this
influence
spreads
through
the
ent


	heavy	cigarette
smoking,	drinking	coffee	every	day,	ingesting	soda,	eating	large	quantities	of	animal
protein	and	animal	fats,	and	subjecting	oneself	to	x-ray	radiation,	cytotoxic	drugs,	aspirin,
and	other	anti-inflammatory	drugs.	Food	poisoning,	highly	spiced	foods,	iced	beverages,
dehydration,	and	emotional	stress	also	cause	gastric	distress.	All	of	these	also	cause
gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder,	thereby	starting	off	a	vicious	cycle	and	creating
major	disruptions	throughout	the	GI	tract.	In	the	final	event,	malignant
stomach	tumors
may	be	formed.

Most	medical	doctors	now	believe	that	a	“bug”	(
H.	pylori
)	causes	stomach	ulcers.Combating	the	bug	with	antibiotic	drugs	usually	brings	relief	and	stops	the	ulcer.
Although	the	drug	does	not	prevent	the	ulcer	from	returning	after	discontinuation,	there	is
a	high	“recovery”	rate.	Still,	such	“recoveries”	may	cause	side	effects	that	are	often
serious.

The	infection	by	the
H.	pylori
	bug	is	only	possible	because	factors	other	than	a
normally	harmless	germ	have	already	weakened	and	damaged	the	stomach	cells.	In	a
healthy	stomach,	the	same	bug	turns	out	to	be	completely	innocuous.	Most	of	us	have
lived	with	this	bug	without	ever	being	troubled	by	it.	This	brings	up	an	important
question:	Why	does	the	same	bug	cause	an	ulcer	in	some	people	and	not	in	others?	As
mentioned	before,	gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder	can	cause	intestinal	congestion
and	thereby	lead	to	frequent	back-flushing	of	bile	and	toxins	into	the	stomach,	which	may
injure	an	ever-increasing	number	of	stomach	cells.	Antibiotics	destroy	the	natural	stomach
flora,	including	those	bacteria	that	normally	help	to	break	down	damaged	cells.	Although
the	antibiotic	approach	results	in	a	quick	relief	of	symptoms,	it	also	lowers	stomach
performance	permanently,	which	sets	up	the	body	for	more	severe	challenges	than	just
dealing	with	an	ulcer.
1
	Shortcuts	to	healing	rarely	pay	off.	On	the	other	hand,	most
stomach	disorders	disappear	spontaneously	when	all	existing	gallstones	are	removed	and	a
healthy	diet	and	balanced	lifestyle	are	followed	regularly.
	Diseases	of	the	Pancreas

The	pancreas	is	a	small	gland	with	its	head	lying	in	the	curve	of	the	duodenum.	Its	main
duct	joins	the	common	bile	duct	to	form	what	is	known	as	the
ampulla
	of	the	bile	duct.
The	ampulla	enters	the	duodenum	at	its	midpoint.	Apart	from	secreting	the	hormones
insulin
	and
glucagon,
	the	pancreas	produces
pancreatic	juice,
	which	contains	enzymes
that	digest	carbohydrates,	proteins,	and	fats.	When	the	acidic	contents	from	the	stomach
enter	the	duodenum,	they	combine	with	alkaline	pancreatic	juice	and	bile.	This	creates	the
proper	acid-alkaline	balance	(pH-value)	at	which	the	pancreatic	enzymes	are	most
effective.

Gallstones	in	the	liver	or	gallbladder	cut	bile	secretions	from	the	normal	amount	of	one
quart	or	more	per	day,	to	as	little	as	one	cup	or	less	per	day.	This	severely	disrupts	the
digestive	process,	particularly	when	fats	or	fat-containing	foods	are	consumed.
Subsequently,	the	duodenal	pH	remains	too	low,	which	inhibits	the	action	of	pancreatic
enzymes,	as	well	as	those	secreted	by	the	small	intestine.	The	net	result	is	that	food	is	only
partially	digested.	Improperly	digested	food	that	is	saturated	with	the	stomach’s
hydrochloric	acid	can	have	a	very	irritating,	caustic	effect	on	the	entire	intestinal	tract.

If	a	gallstone	has	moved	from	the	gallbladder	into	the	ampulla,	where	the	common	bile
duct	and	the	pancreatic	ducts	combine	(see
Figure	3
),	the	release	of	pancreatic	juice
becomes	obstructed	and	bile	moves	into	the	pancreas.	This	causes	a	number	of	protein-
splitting	pancreatic	enzymes,	which	are	normally	activated	only	in	the	duodenum,	to	be
activated	while	still	in	the	pancreas.	This	makes	these	enzymes	highly	destructive.	They
begin	to	digest	parts	of	the	pancreatic	tissue,	which	can	lead	to	infection,	suppuration,	and
local	thrombosis.	This	condition	is	known	as
pancreatitis.

Gallstones	obstructing	the	ampulla	release	bacteria,	viruses,	and	toxins	into	the
pancreas,	which	can	cause	further	damage	to	pancreatic	cells,	and	eventually	lead	to
malignant	tumors.
	The	tumors	occur	mostly	in	the	head	of	the	pancreas,	where	they
inhibit	the	flow	of	bile	and	pancreatic	juice.	This	condition	is	often	accompanied	by
jaundice
	(for	more	details	see
Diseases	of	the	Liver
	below).

Gallstones	in	the	liver,	gallbladder,	and	ampulla	may	also	be	partly	responsible	for	both
types	of
diabetes:
	insulin-dependent	and	non-insulin-dependent.	All	patients	of	mine	with
diagnosed	diabetes,	including	children,	have	had	large	quantities	of	stones	in	their	liver.
Each	liver	cleanse	further	improved	their	condition,	provided	that	they	followed	a	healthy
daily	regimen	and	diet	devoid	of	animal	products.
2
	Figure	3
:	Gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder
	Diseases	of	the	Liver

The	liver	is	the	largest	gland	in	the	body.	It	weighs	up	to	three	pounds,	is	suspended
behind	the	ribs	on	the	upper	right	side	of	the	abdomen,	and	spans	almost	the	entire	width
of	the	body.	Being	responsible	for	hundreds	of	different	functions,	it	is	also	the	most
complex	and	active	organ	in	the	body.

Since	the	liver	is	in	charge	of	processing,	converting,	distributing,	and	maintaining	the
body’s	vital	“fuel”	supply	(for	example,	nutrients	and	energy),	anything	that	interferes
with	these	functions	must	have	a	serious,	detrimental	impact	on	the	health	of	the	liver	and
the	body	as	a	whole.	The	strongest	interference	stems	from	the	presence	of	gallstones.

Besides	manufacturing	cholesterol—an	essential	building	material	of	organ	cells,
hormones,	and	bile—the	liver	also	produces	hormones	and	proteins	that	affect	the	way	the
body	functions,	grows,	and	heals.	Furthermore,	it	makes	new	amino	acids
3
	and	converts
existing	ones	into	proteins.	These	proteins	are	the	main	building	blocks	of	the	cells,
hormones,	neurotransmitters,	genes,	and	so	forth.	Other	essential	functions	of	the	liver
include	breaking	down	old,	worn-out	cells;	recycling	proteins	and	iron;	and	storing
vitamins	and	nutrients.	Gallstones	are	a	hazard	to	all	these	vital	tasks.

In	addition	to	breaking	down	alcohol	in	the	blood,	the	liver	also	detoxifies	noxious


 most accessible of all the
standing hip openers because it does not require too much range
in the hips. As one of the three Warrior poses, the stance of Warrior
2 pose elicits a sense of security, strength, concentration, and will.
It empowers us to take up the space we are in wholeheartedly.
How-to:  From Tadasana, take your feet a little wider than leg’s
distance apart. Pivot your right foot forward toward the front of
your mat; make sure the heel of the right foot aligns with the arch
of your back foot. Now pivot your back toes in slightly so that the
toes line up with the front left corner edge of your mat. Stretch
your arms out in a “T” position, bringing your hands in line with
your shoulders. Inhale, and gaze out over your right middle ﬁnger.
As you exhale, bend the right knee and align it directly over the
second and third toes. Keep maintaining a subtle lift through yourpelvic ﬂoor. Relax the tops of your shoulders, soften your facial
muscles, and let your drishti, or gaze, rest over the right middle
ﬁnger. Breathe ﬂuidly in and out.
Benefits:  Physically, Warrior 2 pose strengthens the ankles, the
knees, and the quadriceps. It also helps to tone the pelvic ﬂoor and
stretches the groins, the chest, the lungs, and the shoulders.
Energetically, Warrior 2 pose builds endurance and patience,
increases focus and concentration, and helps with balance. It
strengthens the ﬁrst and second chakras, helping improve stability,
steadiness, and connection to the Earth. Simultaneously, it
engages and opens our centers of creativity and sexuality.
Engage mula bandha and slight uddiyana bandha. Stimulates
apana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  This pose can help relieve backache
and improve the arches in the feet. It is also helpful for addressing
infertility, osteoporosis, and sciatica.
Helpful tips: If balance is an issue, practice this pose with your
back against the wall. If your hips are tight, pivot the back toes in
even more, or adjust the space between the front and back foot so
that your feet are heel to heel instead of heel to arch.
OceanofPDF.comREVERSE WARRIOR POSE: VIPARITA VIRABHADRASANA
Overview:  Often referred to as “peaceful warrior,” Reverse
Warrior pose brings a softer side to Warrior 2 pose. It opens the
heart and lifts the gaze toward the sky, reminding us that we can be
both strong and at peace simultaneously.
How-to:  From Warrior 2 pose, spin the right palm to face the
ceiling. On an inhale, lift through your torso and slide the back arm
toward the back leg. At the same time, move the right arm up by
the right ear. Engage your lower abdominal muscles and lengthen
both sides of your waist evenly. On your next exhalation, come
back to Warrior 2 pose.
Benefits:  Physically, Reverse Warrior pose helps tone the lower
abdomen and the side obliques. In addition to its strengthening
effects on the quadriceps, this pose stretches the muscles along
the lumbar spine. These are known as the “QL,” or the quadratuslumborum. Reverse Warrior pose is an excellent pose to stretch the
intercostal muscles, which help to free the breath. It opens the
shoulders and the chest muscles.
Energetically, Reverse Warrior pose is stimulating because it
moves the breath up into the upper chest. It encourages inhalation
and engages the ﬁrst, second, and fourth chakras, which induces
feelings of love, compassion, and gratitude.
Engage mula bandha. Stimulates prana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  This pose can help relieve backache
and improve the arches in the feet. It helps with asthma and upper-
respiratory congestion.
Helpful tips: If balance is an issue, practice this pose with your
back against the wall. To alleviate stress on your quadriceps,
straighten your front leg. You can also practice this posture sitting
on a chair.
OceanofPDF.comSIDE ANGLE POSE: PARSVAKONASANA
Overview:  This full-body stretch and strength-building posture
engages many of the major muscle groups, cultivating a sense of
structure and expansion at the same time. It opens both the lower
body, which represents our connection to the Earth, and the upper
body, which represents our connection to pure intelligence.
How-to:  From Warrior 2 pose, inhale and reach your right arm
forward toward the front of your mat, lengthening your torso over
your front thigh. On your exhale, lower the right hand down to the
ﬂoor or place it on a block. Now spin the palm of your left hand
forward toward the front of your mat and bring the top arm
alongside your top ear. Keeping your front knee directly over your
second and third toes, begin to rotate your top ribs toward the wall
behind you, working to stack your rib cage. Breathe evenly intoyour front and back ribs. Shift your gaze up toward the top arm.
Keep the same foot alignment as in Virabhadrasana 2.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose strengthens the muscles of the
legs and the ankles. It opens the groins and stretches the waist, the
arms, the chest, the lower back, the intercostal muscles, and the
lungs.
Energetically, Side Angle pose builds endurance and patience,
increases focus and concentration, and helps with balance. It can
help elevate your mood and combat mild depression. It works on
the ﬁrst chakra to help improve stability, steadiness, and
connection to the Earth.
Engage mula bandha and slight uddiyana bandha. Stimulates
apana and udana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Helps alleviate constipation, infertility,
sciatica, osteoporosis, and lower back pain.
Helpful tips: If balance is an issue, practice this pose with your
back against the wall. To modify, rest your right forearm on your
front thigh and raise the other arm overhead. Keep the top arm in
line with your shoulder if your shoulders are tight, with ﬁngertips
pointing straight toward the ceiling. If you have any neck
discomfort, keep your gaze forward toward the wall your torso is
facing.
OceanofPDF.comTRIANGLE POSE: TRIKONASANA
Overview:  It is said that the triangle is the most stable of all the
geometric shapes. It awakens us to the strong, dense power of the
Earth that we can experience through our legs. Concurrently, we
become more aware of the ﬁeld of pure potential through the
direction of the top arm.
How-to:  From Tadasana, step or jump your legs wide, about a
leg’s distance apart, keeping your feet parallel. Pivot your right foot
out at a 90-degree angle so that all ﬁve toes point toward the front
of your mat. Pivot your back toes in at a 45-degree angle so that
the toes point toward the left front corner edge of your mat. Inhale
and lift your arms in a “T” position. On your exhale, bend at the
right hip and reach your right arm toward the front of your mat.
Lower your right hand down, either to your right shin or onto a
block outside your right foot. Lift your left arm toward the ceiling.You can either gaze toward your top arm or, if that bothers your
neck, gaze forward toward the wall in front of you.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose opens the hamstrings, the hips,
the groins, the chest, the shoulders, and the spine. It strengthens
the ankles, the calves, the abdomen, the side obliques, and the
upper back.
Energetically, Trikonasana is stimulating and increases focus
and concentration. It activates the ﬁrst, second, and fourth chakras.
Engage slight mula bandha to help reverse apana vayu.
Engage slight jalandhara bandha to encourage energy movement
to the crown. Stimulates udana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Helps alleviate ﬂat feet, infertility, neck
pain, osteoporosis, and sciatica.
Helpful tips: If balance is an issue, practice this pose with your
back against the wall. If your hamstrings are tight, place your hand
on a block or a chair outside your front foot. If you have any neck
sensitivity, ﬁx your gaze forward or down toward your front foot.
OceanofPDF.comHALF MOON POSE: ARDHA CHANDRASANA
Overview:  Like the moon, this pose teaches us about the
signiﬁcance of transition. How you enter into the pose will
determine your ability to sustain the pose. When we get distracted
or disconnected from our actions, we easily fall off-center. But
when our actions are mindful, we can move through change
without losing our connection to our innermost self.
How-to:  From Triangle pose, place your left hand on your left
hip and look down at your right foot. Bend your right knee and
begin to slide your block or your hand forward about


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The fifth technique.
"When eating or drinking, become the taste of the food or drink, and be filled."
We go on eating things; we cannot live without them. But we eat them very unconsciously, automatically, robot -like. If
the taste is not lived, you are just stuffing. Go slow, and be aware of the taste. And only when you go slow can you be
aware. Do not just go on swallowing things. Taste them unhurriedly and become the taste.
When you feel sweetness, become that sweetness. And then it can be felt all over the body - not just in the mouth,
not just on the tongue; it can be felt all over the body. 'A certain sweetness' is spreading in ripples - or anything else.
"Whatsoever you are  eating, feel the taste and become the taste."
---- Tantra says taste it as much as possible; be more sensitive, alive. And not only be sensitive: become the taste.
"With avoidance of taste, your senses will be deadened."
They will become less and less sen sitive. And with less sensitivity, you will not be able to feel your body, you will not
be able to feel your feelings. Then you will just remain centered in the head. This centeredness in the head is the split.
Tantra says do not create any division within  yourself. It is beautiful to taste; it is beautiful to be sensitive. And if you
are more sensitive you will be more alive, and if you are more alive, then more life will enter your inner being. You will
be more open.
"You can eat things without tasting; you can touch someone without touching; it is not difficult."
"When eating or drinking, become the taste of the food or drink, and be filled by the taste; When drinking water, feel
the coolness. Close your eyes, drink it slowly, taste it. Feel that you hav e become that coolness; it is becoming a part
of your body. Allow its ripples to spread, and you will feel a coolness all over your body.
In this way your sensitivity can grow, and you can become more alive and more filled.
We are feeling frustrated, vacan t - empty, and we go on talking that life is empty. But we are the reason. We are not
filling it and we are not allowing anything to fill it.
We have an armor around us - a defense armor, We are afraid to be vulnerable, so we go on defending against
everyt hing. And then we become tombs - dead things.”
"Tantra says be alive, more alive, because life is God. There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be
more Divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you (p. 392). "

ALERTNESS
While  eating, eat: chew with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't do it mechanically.
Walk with alertness, and you will walk differently: a different grace comes to your walking. You move more slowly,
more beautifully....
When I say "feel", I mean observe. First do it mechanically and then with awareness, and you will be able to feel the
difference.
For example, if you eat with awareness, then you cannot eat more than is needed by the body.

CONSCIOUSNESS
People go on coming to me and they say, "Put us on a diet." I tell them: Don't think of diet. Think of consciousness.
By dieting nothing will happen. You cannot do it. You will do it one day and the next day it will go. You cannot continue
it.
Rather eat with awareness. The quality changes. If you eat with  awareness, you will chew more. With unconscious
mechanical habits, you simply go on pushing things into your stomach. You are not chewing at all: you are just
stuffing.
Then there is no pleasure, and because there is no pleasure, you need more food in order to get the pleasure. There
is no taste, so you need more food.
Just be alert and see what happens. If you are alert, you will chew more, you will feel the taste more, you will feel the
pleasure of eating. And much more time will be taken.
If you take  half an hour to eat your meal, then by taking the same quantity of a meal with full awareness you will need
1 1/2 hours - thrice the time. In half an hour you will have eaten only one -third of the quantity, and you will feel more
fulfilled: you will have enjoyed the meal more.

THE BODY TELLS YOU TO STOP
And when the body enjoys, it tells you when to stop. When the body has not enjoyed at all, it never says when to stop,
so you go on. Then the body becomes dull. You never hear what the body is saying.
You are eating without being there: that creates the problem.
Be there, and every process will be slowed down. The body will itself say, "No more!" And when the body says it, that
is the right moment. If you are aware, you cannot trespass the body's order. Yo u will stop.
So allow your body to say something. The body is saying things every moment, but you are not there to hear it. Be
alert and you will hear it.

CHAOS BECOMING SYMPHONY
The emphasis is on feeling because the emphasis is on a "lived" experience. When you start feeling things, you grow:
your being grows.

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Right now you are chaotic because there is no arrangement: the arrangement comes in when you start being aware.
Just by being aware things start falling in line, and this chaos that you are becomes a symphony.

MEDITATION OVER FOOD
For those who practice meditation, the use of eating as a meditation is the easiest of all meditations to master. We,
as all livi ng creatures, are thoroughly experienced in eating, a practice we have done all our lives, several times a day
since birth. It does not involve difficult concentration as ordinary meditation techniques do.
The pleasure involved in eating, automatically hol ds the interest of attention, almost effortlessly. This is the reason
why this eating technique of meditation has been held in especially high regard by the most ancient practitioners of
Tantra - since its practice leads to a profound transformation in a r elatively short period of time, with a minimum of
effort.
Every time you eat, several times a day, you'll be practicing meditation and this leads to rapid progress and
attainment when done with your full attention.

CONCLUSION
The great pleasure resulting from satisfying such a most basic instinct as eating leads to a tremendous inner peace,
joy and bliss which spreads over all the feelings and emotions, both conscious and subconscious. The resulting
happiness leads to a persistent satisfaction with all of life, which keeps constantly growing and spreading in intensity.
It may seem greatly exaggerated to most persons, but it must be actually experienced, not intellectually considered, to
be believed. The idea that such a simple practice could lead to such pr ofound changes in feeling is difficult to
conceive. Yet, these results are the legacy experienced by the unsophisticated and unintellectual creatures or all
creation.
Why not reach out and claim your birthright of sheer joy and bliss!
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"Even if a person has a baffling, rare disease and the diagnosis is unknown, if he or she eats
properly, or fasts if necessary in addition, the body will surely heal itself, as long as sufficient
vitality is present."

CAUSE OF DISEASES
Barring injury, emergencies, or complications resulting from injury, such as hemorrhaging, broken bones, etc.., let us
begin with conditions that are classified as diseases.
Generally speaking, diseases are caused by any or all of 3 fact ors - namely enervation, toxemia or deficiency.

TOXEMIA - TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN THE BODY
There are 2 sources of toxemia:
(a) Toxemia which is caused by the ingestion and accumulation of substances which are foreign to the body and toxic
in nature, such as c hemicals, drugs, etc. These produce irritation, inflammation and pathology in bodily organs and
systems.
(b) Toxemia which is due to the accumulation of toxic wastes resulting from the food and beverages we eat and drink;
unnatural food or natural food in excess beyond what the body can use at the moment. Retention of this excess leads
to decomposition of the food and the production of irritating and toxic chemical wastes, which provide a fertile field for
the growth of microbes and various species of bacte ria, which further increase the toxic state.

DEFICIENCIES
Deficiencies: The insufficiency of necessary food substances, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals,
vitamins, enzymes etc., lead to breakdown of cells, tissues and organs which is given names of diseases, according
to its location.

ENERVATION AND TOXEMIA CYCLE
John Henry Tilden, M.D., formulated a theory of the cause of disease as due to a recurring cycle of enervation and
toxemia.


	prevention	is	best.	Eat	a	good	diet,	free
of	refined	sugar,	and	be	sure	to	brush	and	floss.	Be	particular	about	what	type	of
toothpaste,	too	(see	appendix	C).In	addition	to	being	toxic,	putting	different	metals	in	the	mouth	in	the
presence	of	saliva,	which	is	electrically	conductive,	generates	subtle	electrical
currents	that	corrode	the	metals	in	the	mouth.	Once	metals	begin	to	corrode	and
degrade,	they	become	biologically	active	and	begin	circulating	around	various
bodily	tissues,	leading	to	toxic	accumulation.	In	addition,	the	subtle	electrical
currents	can	also	affect	other	body	functions	and	cause	numerous	problems,
including	hearing	loss,	insomnia,	and	difficulties	with	memory	and
concentration.
Local	anesthetics	(including	lidocaine)	are	commonly	used	by	dentists	and
may	be	substantial	contributors	to	our	cancer	epidemic.	These	anesthetics	break
down	in	the	body	into	cancer-causing	compounds	called	anilines.	In	1993,	the
FDA	found	that	lidocaine,	when	exposed	to	human	tissue,	breaks	down	into	2,	6-
dimethylaniline,	a	compound	that	is	known	to	cause	virtually	every	kind	of
cancer	in	animals,	and	it	does	so	more	than	99	percent	of	the	time.	In	September
1996,	as	a	result	of	these	findings,	the	FDA	removed	from	the	market	all	over-
the-counter	painkillers	containing	these	local	anesthetics	and	required	that	a
warning	be	placed	on	all	new	prescription	pharmaceuticals	containing	them.
Unfortunately,	existing	prescription	anesthetics	were	not	required	to	carry	the
warning,	and	most	health	professionals	are	still	unaware	of	this	problem.
Work	with	your	dentists	and	doctors	to	minimize	exposure	to	local
anesthetics.	Local	anesthetics	are	given	more	often	than	necessary—usually	for
the	dentist’s	convenience.	Use	these	products	only	when	absolutely	necessary,
and	use	the	minimum	dose	necessary.	Do	not	keep	requesting	more	anesthetic
because	of	the	fear	of	“not	quite	being	numb.”	Alternatives	include:
acupuncture,	hypnosis,	rubbing	oil	of	cloves	on	the	gum.
The	Healer	Within	Yourself
Regardless	of	which	medical	treatments	you	choose,	understand	how	the
treatments	actually	work	and	how	they	affect	your	cells.	Treatments	designed	to
optimize	or	balance	the	function	of	your	cells	generally	are	safer	and	more
effective	than	treatments	designed	to	mask	symptoms.	Take	medicine	only	when
you	need	it	(you	definitely	want	to	question	taking	drugs	every	day	as	a	part	of
life),	and	only	after	you	have	compared	(and	attained	second	opinions	on)
benefits	and	possible	side	effects.	Remember	that	you	are	in	charge	and	you
must	take	responsibility	for	your	own	health	by	supporting	your	body’s	natural
abilities	to	repair	and	regulate	itself.
John	Lee,	M.D.,	wrote	in	his	1993	book,
Optimal	Health	Guidelines:
“Goingto	the	doctor	these	days	can	be	risky	business.	In	generations	past,	the	basic	tenet
of	medical	care	was	‘Primum	non	nocere’	(above	all,	do	no	harm).	Today	that
dictum	has	been	modified	to	‘do	as	little	harm	as	possible.’	Even	that	.	.	.	is
becoming	operationally	impossible.	The	patient	must	now	learn	to	look	out	for
himself.”
Physicians	do	have	their	place,	but	one	has	to	know	what	that	place	is.	For
example,	anyone	with	acute	health	problems,	such	as	a	stroke,	a	bleeding	ulcer
or	chest	pains,	should	seek	immediate	medical	attention.	However,	people	who
are	suffering	from	chronic	disease	problems	(cancer,	heart	disease,	diabetes,
arthritis,	high	blood	pressure,	depression	and	so	forth)	are	best	advised	to	avoid
modern	conventional	medicine	and	to	seek	competent	alternative	care.
Traditional	healers	typically	worked	to	balance	the	body,	both	physically	and
energetically,	thereby	promoting	health.	That	remains	the	underlying	approach
of	many	alternative	practitioners	and	alternative	treatments,	including	a	growing
number	of	enlightened	M.D.s,	naturopaths,	homeopaths,	acupuncturists,
chiropractors,	energy	healers,	massage	therapists	and	others.
Conventional	medicine	is	a	powerful	moneymaking	bureaucracy	that	is
incredibly	resistant	to	change,	but	there	is	also	a	growing	movement	in	this
country	to	pass	medical	freedom	laws	that	would	bring	more	competition	and
creativity	into	the	medical	marketplace.	(Physicians	would	then	be	free	to	pursue
treatments	that	are	not	only	safe,	but	more	effective,	such	as	treating	heart
disease	with	diet	and	supplements	rather	than	surgery;	treating	cancer	with
nutrition,	detoxification	and	herbs;	and	treating	stroke	with	hyperbaric	oxygen.)
About	half	of	all	patients	in	America	now	seek	at	least	some	form	of	alternative
treatment;	people	are	putting	the	power	of	health	into	their	own	hands.	This
statement	shouldn’t	suggest	that	alternative	treatments	are	always	safe	and
effective—indeed,	many	are	not—but	the	growing	discontent	with	our
conventional	health-care	system	is	a	reality	that	we	can	no	longer	ignore.
Optimizing	your	position	on	the
medical	pathway
requires	being	aware	of	the
hazards	of	modern	medicine	as	well	as	its	miracles.	You,	not	your	doctor,	are
responsible	for	your	health.11
A	S
HIFT	IN
P
ERSPECTIVE
“This	pattern	of	high	resistance	and	freedom	from
degenerative	disease	is	seen	wherever	people	live	beyond	the
reach	of	modern	civilization	and	are	not	suffering	from
famine.”
Charles	McGee,	M.D.
How	to	Survive	Modern	Technology
P
erspective	is	everything.	By	reshaping	our	understanding	of	disease,	we	are
empowered	to	create	health.	Are	you	ready	to	take	charge	of	your	health	and
experience	a	state	of	well-being	that	even	your	doctors	may	doubt	is	possible?
As	you	have	read	this	book,	you	have	discovered	ways	in	which	you	must
change	your	life	in	order	to	get	better	and	in	order	to	stay	well.	Perhaps	you	are
fighting	a	disease	with	little	success,	and	now	you	see	hope.	Or	perhaps	you
have	considered	yourself	“healthy,”	only	to	recognize	that	your	body	already	is
showing	early	warning	signs	of	disease.
Do	you	have	a	general	feeling	that	your	body	is	struggling	to	keep	up?	Are
you	confused	or	frustrated	by	your	medical	doctors	or	their	recommended
treatments?	Are	you	distressed	by	the	number	of	prescription	drugs	or	over-the-
counter	medicines	you	take	in	order	to	keep	going,	even	if	you	have	no	sense
you	are	getting	better?	Are	you	suffering	a	variety	of	symptoms	that	no	doctor
has	been	able	to	help	you	with?	Are	you	making	unhealthful	choices	in	the	foods
that	you	eat,	in	the	products	that	you	use	on	yourself	or	in	your	home,	and	in
other	aspects	of	your	life?
Before	I	got	so	sick	and	almost	died	in	198


 whilst activating lipogenesis (fat creation),
resulting in fat gain. On the other hand, abstaining from caloric intake
altogether, for an extended period of time, 23/1 fasting for example actually
lowers insulin levels and allows lipolysis to be switched back on, thus, the body is
permitted to break into its fat stores for energy.
This practice is called intermittent  fasting and has physiological effects distinct
from those of calorie restriction. During periods of 23:1 fasting, not only is BMR
maintained via increased noradrenaline levels, (which will be in your orin) but
there is also no net increase in hunger, measured via ghrelin levels.
Furthermore, 23:1 intermittent  fasting also preserves lean body mass, and so is
said to be muscle-sparing. People cannot just make a decision to burn more fat
calories, or to feel less hungry. These are physiological issues and must be
addressed via physiology. It is time to stop scolding people for lack of willpower,
and to start showing them how to lose weight in a healthy fashion, without
torturing themselves. Omad Orin looping is the ultimate biohack for losing
weight, healing the body and boosting your energy levels. It will work for you in
so many ways. Even for those who have tried everything and nothing seems to
work, this programme will work.
So what happens whenever you eat or drink something that takes you out of a
fasted state (anything other than pure h2o or your own living water)? Your life
water (orin) is taken from your blood and is immediately recognised by your
body so it can go back into the blood 100% bioavailable. Including increased
noradrenaline levels and any other beneficial substances made by your body.
Anything else apart from pure water will need to be broken down with stomach
acid and then processed by the body which will take you out of a fasted state.
What happens then is that insulin is produced, so anybody suggesting a so called
juice fast is promoting insulin going up. Insulin is basically the hormone that tells
the body to store fat. This is key to remember while 23/1 fasting and you are so
tempted to have a little of something, say out loud "do I want my insulin to go
right up now? I know it is produced to store fat."
It stops the body from burning fat for energy, and starts storing fat instead! This
is key to memorise.
Consume something other than pure water or life water = insulin goes up = body
starts storing fat.
Only consume life water and pure water for 23 hrs per day = insulin goes down
= body burns fat instead of storing it.
You feel energetic instead of lethargic. It's that simple, you bio hack your body to
burn fat and give you energy instead of forcing it to store fat robbing you of
energy.If you don't consume anything apart from pure or living waters for 23 hrs a day
then you feel so energetic you wouldn't believe until you experience it yourself.
Not only do your insulin levels go down, but all other negative substances (like
cortisol for example) go down while all the positive substances go up by large
amounts.
If you come out of that fasted state before your eating window then you turn off
that power/energy source and tell the body to start storing fat. This robs you of
energy and makes you feel lethargic.
You need to understand this when you are tempted to break your fast earlier
than your eating window.
This is why 23:1 fasting is so superior to cutting calories or eating several smaller
meals a day.
Your metabolism or aging process speeds up eating or juicing often, but by
reducing to just once per day you slow down your metabolism or your aging
process. This is the ultimate bio hack. You de-age and prolong your life.
It’s not just physical energy you will notice increasing but cognitive responses
and clear thinking go through the roof. Yes if your studying for exams then go on
omad orin looping programme. Even if your not studying for any exams then
eating once a day and looping all your orin will improve your memory and help
your brain become younger and better. You also need less sleep.
It is absolutely true. The more you eat the more sleep you need. On omad you
really do actually need less sleep. Your body is not pushing all that food through
you, just a smaller amount once per day. The body can get on with cleansing and
healing the rest of the time. You have a lot more energy and less need for rest
and sleep. It really is true the more you eat the more you need to sleep. If you
eat once per day you can get by on less sleep and still feel fully rested.
When it comes near to your eating window, have your last big loop 20-30 mins
before you eat. This is the last one of the day. After your meal don't loop it, start
saving it for tomorrow morning. This will help you digest your meal, and give
your kidneys a rest at night time, and help you sleep without needing to pee in
the night so much, or at all so you can get good quality sleep.
So when it comes near to your eating window about 20 mins after your last loop
if like me you choose 5pm or whenever you decide to be your eating window.
First prepare your one beverage, which will be a large fruit based smoothie. Pour
into your blender mixed frozen fruit, or freshly picked if you can get them, in the
summer and as far as possible into autumn pick bags of fresh berries, fruit and
you should also include edible greens in your smoothie. Going out and Picking
some wild nettles, dandelions and goose grass just before your eating window
and including them in your smoothie.
Also some edible mushrooms and fungus if you can, try to include many different
edible plants, mainly fruits and berries don’t always use the same ones, variety every day, a few mixed nuts and some raw whole hive honey. I also sometimes
add some rolled oats, as long as they are raw. Then a spoonful of unpasteurised
pure blackstrap molasses. Then add handfuls of sprouted seeds and beans. This
is the ultimate, because when they are sprouted the goodness of seeds goes up
thousands of percent. So instead of putting in dried seeds or beans, just sprout
them and the goodness and nutrient content really does go up over 10x,
sometimes more than 20x.
Mix it up and consume slowly making sure to mix each mouthful with lot of
saliva. Chew any lumps, don't just swallow them too quickly, there are hormones
in the saliva that are an important part of the digestion process. If you take any
supplements now is the time, for example some super greens  like moringa and
maybe some protein or other powder in your smoothie. I also add some amla
powder which improves blood flow as well as other benefits.
This bit is the most controversial but I also include live insects in my smoothie. I
have live insect traps called bug hotels and also breed my own meal worms for
this purpose. These are so full of nutrition you wouldn't believe. And once you
wiz them up in your smoothie maker you can't tell what you are consuming
anyway. Not that it's a problem for me to eat live insects, which I include in my
one beverage quite frequently. This is such nutrient dense food.
Then about 10-15 mins later eat and enjoy your one plate meal in the remaining
45mins. This can be absolutely anything, but try to make good choices. A
balance of all food groups over time. Chew everything very well before
swallowing. It’s important to get enjoyment from your food, you have been
waiting all day for this moment. I close my eyes and concentrate on the
enjoyment the tastes and the experience. Your enjoyment goes up a hundred
fold on this protocol, you can have a very good relationship and appreciation of
good food.
As time goes on your plant based smoothie can get to be a larger percentage of
the overall meal. I'm now at the point where the smoothie is over 50% of my one
meal, meaning that the one plate meal is smaller than the smoothie. But I'm a
flexaterian, so mix things up occasionally. Variety is the spice of life.
Don’t rush anything at this stage. Take your time for your meal to go down and
digest. And when finished you may well have cravings for more of something,
but just wait. There is a delay between what you have just swallowed to your
stomach telling your brain that you are full. You can eat simple salads as much
as you want after if you really feel you need more of something. Just as long as
it's within your 1 hour window.
Many times include living sauerkraut or other pro biotic foods with your one plate
meal. Other examples are Japanese miso, or natto. Raw fruit is easy to digest but
raw vegetables are harder to digest than fermented veggies. As it turns out, the
body is able to access more of the precious nutrients available in plants when
they are fermented. Some pickled food is fermented but not all. But apple cider
vinegar can be very good for you in its own right. For example I include a few pickled green walnuts in ACV every now and then. These are not fermented but
still have lots


 every village
along the two thousand miles of the Incan empire. They
were swift messengers of almost inhuman endurance. They
ran barefoot, covering immense distances every day—at
times the equivalent of two or three Olympic marathons.
Some of their trails began at the height of a mountain peak
in the Colorado Rockies  and ascended more than a mile
higher.
It must have been these runners, the eyes and ears of the
emperor Atahualpa, who warned him of the approaching
Spanish. By treachery, Pizarro collected a fortune in
ransom when he kidnapped (and later murdered)
Atahualpa. One hopes the legends are true which say thatthe most priceless Incan  gold was secreted away in time.
(Pizarro, who was unusually greedy, even for a
conquistador, was himself murdered by jealous rivals in
1541.)
If you think of the human brain as the fortress at Machu
Picchu, then it too must have runners to carry its
commands to the farthest outposts of its empire—in this
case, the big toe. The physical routes are certainly visible—
the central nervous system runs down the spinal column,
branching out on either side at each vertebra in the
backbone; these major nerves then branch into millions of
tinier pathways that communicate to every region of the
body. The early anatomists saw the major nerves in the
sixteenth century, but the nervous system kept a secret.
Who were the runners that took the messages to and from
the brain?
Many people still think that the nerves work electrically,
like a telegraph system, because until ﬁfteen years ago,
that is what medical texts contended. However, in the
1970s, a series of impor tant discoveries began, centering
on a new class of minute chemicals called
neurotransmitters. As their name implies, these chemicals
transmit nerve impulses; they act in our bodies as
“communicator molecule s,” whereby the neuron s of the
brain can talk to the rest of the body.
Neurotransmitters are the runners that race to and from
the brain, telling every organ inside us of our emotions,
desires, memories, intuitions, and dreams. None of these
events are conﬁned to the brain alone. Likewise, none of
them are strictly mental, since they can be coded into
chemical messages. Neurotransmitters touch the life of
every cell. Wherever a thought wants to go, these
chemicals must go too, and without them, no thoughts can
exist. To think is to practice brain chemistry, promoting a
cascade of responses throughout the body. We have alreadyseen that intelligence, as know-how, pervades the
physiology—now it has acquired a material basis.
That gives away the plot of this chapter, but with none of
the drama. In truth, no other recent event in biomedicine
has been as revolutionary as these discoveries. The arrival
of neurotransmitters on the scene makes the interaction of
mind and matter far more mobile and ﬂowing than ever
before—far closer to the model of the river. They also help
ﬁll the gap that apparently separates mind and body, one of
the deepest mysteries that man has faced since he began to
consider what he is.
—
At ﬁrst, around 1973, it seemed that only two
neurotransmitters were needed, one to activate a distant
cell, such as a muscle, and the other to slow down the
activity. Two brain chemicals, acetylcholine and
norepinephrine, do just that; they are the “go” and “slow
down” signal s of the nervous system. They were considered
revolutionary at the time, because they proved that the
impulse sent from one nerve cell to the next was not
electrical but chemical in nature. All at once, the accepted
notion of tiny sparks jumping from neuron to neuron was
rendered obsolete. But the new chemical model at ﬁrst
continued to preserve the basic theory that only two signals
were necessary. Man-made computers operate using just
this kind of binary switch, and apparently so did the brain.
Then, as molecular biologists around the world began to
investigate more deeply, numerous new neurotra nsmitters
cropped up, each with a diﬀerent molecular structure and
apparently a diﬀerent message to deliver. Structurally,
many of them were related, being built up as peptides,
complex chains of amino acids of the same kind as those
which appea r in the proteins that make up every cell,
including brain cells.A great many riddles began to be solved, directly or
indirectly, as these discoveries emerged. If you take a
sleeping cat, remove a tiny portion of its spinal ﬂuid, and
inject it into a cat that is awake, the second  cat will
immediately fall asleep. This is becau se a cat’s brain puts
its body to sleep chemically, with its own internal sleeping
potion. In order for the animal to wake up again, the
opposite chemical, a wake-up signal, must be injected into
the spinal column.
In humans, where the same chemical mech anisms
operate, the body is awakened in the morning not by a rude
internal alarm but by a series of timed signals, at ﬁrst mild,
then progressively stronger, that lift us from deep  sleep by
stages. The whole process involves a gradual transition, in
four or ﬁve waves, from the biochemistry of sleep to the
biochemistry of wakefulness. If this process is interrupted,
you do not come as fully awake as you should—the
biochemistry of two distinct phases has been mixed. That is
why parents  of newborns, having to get up several times
during the night, feel that they are never quite normal
during the day. Alarm clocks also jolt us out of our natural
wake-up patterns, giving rise to grogginess that may
persist all day, until the next round of sleeping-and-waking
readjusts the mind-body chemistry.
Here is a related example. All camels exhibit an unusual
tolerance for high levels of pain—they can calmly chew on
thorns while  at the same  time being beaten with a stick by
an irate camel driver. Curious researchers examined
camels’ brain cells and found that they produce large
quantities of a speciﬁc biochemical that, if injected into
other animals, causes them to ignore pain, too. Sleep and
pain toleranc e, it is now known, thus depend on precise
chemical messengers produced in the brain.
One by one, various other functions that were once “all in
your head ” have been connected to speciﬁcneurotransmitters. Schizophrenics suﬀering acutely from
hallucinations and psychotic thoughts often improve
dramatically if put on a kidney dialysis machine, which
ﬁlters impurities from the blood. As we saw, brain
researchers have established that a neurotransmitter called
dopamine exists in abnormally high levels in the brains of
schizophrenics. Current chemical treatment of the disorder
entails using psycho-active drugs that suppress dopamine;
perhaps the dialysis machine is actually removin g it, or a
related by-product, from the bloodstream.
By the mid-1980s, barely ten years after the original
breakthrough, more than ﬁfty such neurotransmitters and
neuropeptides were known. All ﬁfty can be manufactured
on one side of the synapses between our neurons, and once
they cross the synapses, all ﬁfty can be received by the
receptor sites on the other side. This implies an incredible
ﬂexibility to communicate from cell to cell. The individual
neuron was now seen to be a producer of messages that did
not just say “yes” or “no,” as a computer does. The brain’s
vocabulary is far larger, encompassing thousands of
combinations of separate signals, with no end in sight,
since new neurotransmitters continue to be discovered at a
fast rate.
What kind of messages do nerve cells exchange with one
another? The answer is tantalizing, for certain segments of
our chemica l vocabulary  seem to be just as speciﬁc as
ordinary speech, while others are highly ambigu ous. Our
tolerance for pain, like the camel’s, depends on the class of
biochemicals discovered in the 1970s called endorphins
and enkeph alins, which act as the body’s natural
painkillers. The word endorphin  means “internal
morphine,” and enkephalin  means “inside the brain.” And
that is their story: they are like a version of morphine
produced by the brain itself.This hitherto  unknown ability to make internal opiates
proved very exciting. It was already suspecte d that the
body must be able to regulate the sensation of pain.
Although insistent, pain does not always register on our
awareness. Strong emotions, for example, can override
pain signals from the body, as when a mother rushes to
save her child from a burning house or a wounded soldier
ﬁghts on, ignoring the pain of his injuries. Under more
ordinary circumstances, all of us to some extent can take
our attention away from a minor pain—we don’t  notice a
sore throat, for instance, if we are talking to someone with
intense interest.
Despite this


,
Kapha
	is	what	gives
structure	to	our	body	and	mind	and	lubrication	for	our	joints	and	tissues,	and
helps	to	form	healthy	structures	(
dhatus
)	of	the	body.
Symptoms	of	balanced
Kapha
:	stamina;	strength;	healthy	lubrication
and	moistness	in	skin,	hair	and	joints;	devotion;	good	at	following
through;	even-tempered;	patient;	compassionate
Symptoms	of	imbalanced
Kapha
:	easily	gaining	weight	(and	having	a
hard	time	losing	or	maintaining	ideal	weight),	slow	metabolism,
lethargy,	excessive	sleep,	problems	feeling	motivated,	congestion,
stagnation	in	the	lymphatic	system,	oily	skin
Some	basic	tips	for	balancing
Kapha
	include	the	following:•
Incorporate	some	cardio	to	help	ward	off	stagnation	and	lethargy.	Hiking
and	biking	are	some	great	examples.
•
Favor	light,	dry	foods	and	decrease	all	oils	and	excess
fats.	Try	cooking	with
water	or	preparing	soups	and	steaming	or	baking	vegetables	with	little	(or
even	no)	oil.	(Good	fats	can	be	consumed	in	moderate	amounts	from
avocados	and	other	whole	plant	foods.)
•
Reduce	consumption	of	large	amounts	of	nuts,	which	are	dense.
•
In	warmer	months,	enjoy	a	diet	made	up	largely	of	raw	foods,	including
vegetables,	fruits,	some	seeds,	and	small	amounts	of	nuts.
•
Reduce	sodium	levels.
•
Try	avoiding
gluten	and	wheat-based	products.
As	micro	expressions	of	the	greater	macrocosmic	universe,	we	have	an
inherent	connection	to	the	greater	bodies	of	the	sun,	the	moon,	and	all	the
elements	of	nature,	which	also	reside	within	us.	Working	to	optimize	their
influence	on	us	and	balance	the	universal	elements	within	our	own	bodies	is	an
important	way	to	align	to	your	highest	expression	of	Radical	Beauty.SHIFT	15:
Get	Closer	to	Nature	Indoors	and
Out
Healing	by	“
Grounding”
Most	of	us	intuitively	feel	good	being	in	nature.	You	may	not	realize	that	there
is	actually	a	word	for	making	direct	contact	with	the	earth,	but	actually	there
are	two:
grounding
	and
earthing
.	Both	terms	refer	to	the	healing	that	takes	place
from	making	direct	contact	with	the	earth.
There	are	now	studies	that	show	that	grounding	has	major	benefits	for	health
as	well	as	beauty.	For	instance,	a	study	published	in	the
Journal	of	Cosmetics,
Dermatological	Sciences	and	Applications
	found	that	even	an	hour	session	of
making	direct	contact	with	the	earth	restored	the	regulation	of	blood	flow	to
the	face,	helping	to	enhance	skin	tissue	repair	and	improve	facial	appearance.
1
Our	intrinsic	connection	with	nature	is	so	great	that	just	by	making	direct
contact	with	it,	our	skin	beauty	measurably	benefits!	Mother	Nature	indeed	can
be	a	powerful	supporter	of	our	skin	and	overall	health.
How	does	touching	the	earth	actually	improve	our	health	and	beauty	beyond
just	feeling	“good”?	Just	touching	the	earth,	which	is	electrically	conductive,
2
neutralizes	free	radicals	and	brings	you	back	in	sync	with	the	earth’s	energy
field.	Upon	contact,	the	negative	ions	from	the	earth’s	surface	rush	into	our
bodies	to	discharge	the	many	unpaired	positive	ions	(or	free	radicals)	we’ve
picked	up	from	modern	living.	These	free	radicals	stem	from	regular	exposure
to	environmental	pollutants,	heavy	metals,	radiation,	toxicity,	and	chemicals	in
the	food	supply.	Those	free	radicals	are	associated	with	disease,	aging,	and
inflammation,	but	when	you	expose	your	bare	skin	to	the	soil,	sand,	or	grass,
the	healing	powers	of	the	earth	neutralize	them	to	keep	inflammation	and
aging	in	check.
Think	about	how	soothing	it	feels	to	dig	your	heels	into	the	sand	during	a
day	at	the	beach.	Now	there	is	science	to	prove	what	we’ve	intuitively	felt	allalong:	contact	with	the	earth	really	is	healing	and	necessary	to	achieve	Radical
Beauty.	A	paper	by	Dr.
James	Oschman	in	the
Journal	of	Alternative	and
Complementary	Medicine
3
	explains	how	“electron	deficiency”	from	not	making
enough	contact	with	the	earth’s	surface	causes	the
immune	system	to	suffer	and
inflammation	to	spiral	out	of	control.
Free	radicals	are	some	of	the	biggest	offenders	when	it	comes	to	aging,	and
neutralizing	them	with	negative	electrons	from	the	earth	quells	inflammation
and	slows	or	prevents	many	chronic	diseases.	A	study	published	in	2013	found
that	grounding	has	some	beneficial	effects	on	cardiovascular	risk	factors.
4
	It	was
surmised	that	this	is	because	contact	with	the	earth	naturally	thins	the	blood.
Other	research,	from	2011,	showed	that	grounding	improves	heart	rate
variability,	which	is	not	only	beneficial	for	the	heart	but	for	reducing	stress.
5
Lowered	stress	levels	can	help	allay	aging.
6
	Grounding	also	helped	alleviate
muscle	soreness	in	some	research,
7
	possibly	due	to	better	circulation,	blood
pressure,	and	blood	flow.	This	is	important	from	a	beauty	standpoint,	as	better
circulation	of	nutrients	and	oxygen	will	ensure	beautiful,	healthy	skin	and	hair.
HELP	FOR	BONE	HEALTH	RIGHT	FROM	THE	EARTH
The
Journal	of	Alternative	and	Complementary	Medicine
	discussed	a	possible
reduction	in	the	likelihood	of	developing	osteoporosis	due	to	less	loss	of	calcium
and	phosphorus	through	urinary	excretion
8
	when	subjects	spent	time	earthing.	The
loss	of	these	minerals	over	time	is	tied	to	the	development	of	osteoporosis,	so
finding	out	how	to	reduce	the	loss	could	do	wonders	for	bone	health	and	to	help	us
maintain	a	beautiful,	upright,	and	graceful	structure.
How	to	Get	Grounded
Grounding	couldn’t	be	easier—and	it’s	free!	All	you	have	to	do	is	touch	the
earth	whenever	you	can	and	as	much	as	you	can.	Here	are	some	general	tips:
•
Make	as	much	contact	as	possible	directly	through	your	bare	feet,	whether	it
means	popping	your	shoes	off	at	the	local	park	or	just	walking	around	in
your	backyard.
•
Even	a	few	minutes	spent	in	contact	with	the	earth	is	beneficial.	Try	to	work
it	into	your	life	regularly.	You	can	read	with	your	feet	on	the	earth,	or	have	a
conversation	with	friends	while	strolling	barefoot	through	the	park.	If	they
need	extra	motivation,	share	with	them	how	it’s	been	proved	to	be	good	for
skin	health	and	reducing	aging	and	inflammation.•
If	you	have	access	to	a	grassy	backyard,	a	nice	park,	or	just	a	field	of	grass,	lie
down	sometimes	so	your	spine	has	full	contact	with	the	earth.	You	can	even
try	taking	a	nap	on	your	back	in	the	grass;	you’ll	wake	up	feeling	radically
recharged.
It	seems	so	simple,	but	remember	that	some	of	the	m


 capsule form, or better still by far, yeast can be taken. This booklet has always
suggested yeast, and recently we have developed a wonderful new way to take it.
   Dried yeast powder & tablets cause aftertaste and indigestion, and are expensive.
You can buy fresh compressed block yeast at bakery shops for a few cents a pound.
Tell them that you are going to eat it, and you want the freshest they have. You
mustn't eat it raw. It has to be cooked to kill the fermentation, otherwise you will have
gas, and will not properly digest it.
   To cook a pound of yeast, bring 1 cup of water to the boil in a pot on low heat, put
in the yeast about 1/4 pound at a time and stir constantly, adding more yeast as it melts. After it is all melted, keep stirring a little longer until it puffs up and begins to
boil. Put it in a little Pyrex measuring pitcher, cover with foil and put it in the
refrigerator, where it will keep fine for a month or more if you don't foul it by
drinking out of it or dipping into it with a spoon.
   You can flavor it with honey, molasses, vanilla, or whatever you like. Pour yourself
a few spoonsful each day, so one person would use up the pound in three to four
weeks. You can take it straight from a spoon, or mix it into a beverage or food.
   Yeast contains the B vitamins, proteins, and various energy-giving factors still only
partially known to science. There is nothing else we have found which will pep you
up as fast as yeast, make you feel better, and keep you going strong. It reduces the
body's demand for blood flow, thereby reducing the work the heart has to do, letting it
tick along in an easy regular way. Many people think they have a bad heart, with an irregular skipping pulse and a fluttery full feeling in the upper chest, when all they
need is a little help from yeast. It seems to help people sleep better also.

28. THE USE OF LOCALIZED HEAT
   It is possible to speed up the atherosclerosis cleaning and healing process in certain
localized spots  by the use of heat. The value of hot water bottles, heating pads and
hot water soaking has been known for ages, but few know why it works or how to use
it properly: Nature has designed our bodies to use heat as a kind of alarm signal which calls upon our reserve forces to concentrate at whatever spot becomes warmer than
the rest of the body, so as to fight off infection, clean up foreign materials, and speed
the healing process. This is why the skin feels hot around a severe infection like a
boil.
   But we must remember that the secret of success is to put the heat on one spot at a
time,  and concentrate on that spot daily for weeks until the desired relief is obtained
there.  For instance, most people fail when the doctor tells them to soak their knee by
saying "I'll just get in a hot bath and soak all over." Sorry, it won't work, because the
effect is spread all over and is nullified. Along this line, it is obvious that if one is
using spot heat treatment a bath should not be taken within an hour or so before or
after, also that the bath water should be onl y slightly warm. In general very hot baths
are injurious because they upset the body's alarm signal system and wash too much
valuable oil out of the skin.
   In hot water treatment it is of no value to add epsom salt or anything else to the
water, as heat alone is what does the work. In the absence of special instructions from
the doctor, ordinarily the application of heat for fifteen to thirty minutes twice or three
times a day is enough if it is done regularly every day. Very long treatment periods
tend to cause exhaustion.
   There is always a possibility of causing bur ns in heat treatment, and it is a good plan
to keep one hand clear of the heat and feel the treated area once in a while to see if it
is getting too hot. Otherwise, you may get so used to the heat you do not realize you
are being burned. Persons with unclear minds should always have supervision when
heat is used, and special care taken with he ating pads around beds, due to fire danger.
Heat lamps are too dangerous to use.
   It is wise to adopt the fresh food diet for about two weeks before using heat for
arterial problems, to strengthen the body and lessen the danger of complications
arising.
   Massage and vibration of arteriosclerotic bodies is dangerous due to the likelihood
of causing blood clots to form or break loose, and also is of no benefit. Likewise
violent exertion, strenuous exercise, or excitement should be avoided. As Dr. Paul Dudley White has stressed, conservati ve regular exercise is beneficial.

29. EATING AND DRINKING HABITS
   If one drinks fluids when eating solid foods the digestive juices are diluted,
resulting in poor digestive action which impairs general health and leads to
indigestion, ulcers, colitis, and bowel problems. It is unnatural and harmful to drink any kind of fluid with solid food.
   One should not drink any beverage, even water, for about 1/2 hour before a meal,
during the meal, or for about 1 hour after a meal. At other times drink all the water or approved beverages desired. Be sure to dri nk plenty of water between meals, a good
plan being to drink a large glassful upon arising in the morning, and at least two more through the day.
   If one finds it hard to eat without drinking, mealtime beverages may be rationed
down a little at a time over a period of several days rather than quit all at once. The
jaws will quickly grow stronger and saliva glands will become more active, so that in
a few days one will enjoy eating solid food without a beverage. Food will taste better
and one will feel better very quickly.

30. MEAT EATING HABITS
   When eating meat do not eat the white gristle off the bones and do not eat the
fibrous streaks which lie around and between the sections of solid meat and fat,
because these parts often contain a great deal  of the hardened atherosclerosis material
from stale feeds which the animal was fed. In making soup or stew, these parts and the bones should be trimmed out before cooking, except in the case of wild game or
meat from animals which were fed very little stale grain or commercial feed.
   Fat can be very nourishing and healthful, but should only be eaten if it is normal
healthy fat. Good fat is slightly translucent, soft and springy, has a melting quality in
the mouth and a sweet delicious taste. Unfortunately commercial meat often has bad
fat, full of deteriorated hardened materials. It is opaque to light, hard and crumbly in
texture, has a chalky or plaster like appearance, does not melt in the mouth and
sometimes sticks to the mouth, and has a flat rancid taste.
   Meat gravy should be eaten if it is not thickened with flour or starch and if it comes
from fresh meat with reasonably good fat. If it tastes rancid, scorched, or feels sticky
and gummy in the mouth, don't eat it.

31. INDIGESTION, BOWEL PROBLEMS, AND ULCERS
   The fresh food diet and improved eating practices usually have a prompt helpful
effect on digestive troubles.
   Some fruits, vegetables, and nuts tend to have a laxative or even an allergic reaction
in some individuals. So if after a few trials it is found that a particular food causes a
bowel upset or stomach ache, that item should be avoided in the future, or try eating
less of it a time. Fruit often rides better on top of other food rather than on an empty
stomach.
   In any case do not tolerate loose bowels occurring over an extended period of time,
because this condition is very weakening. Seek help from your doctor. In general,
some people with sensitive or ulcerated stomachs cannot tolerate raw fruits and vegetables, so have to eat these items cooked.

32. WHERE THE HOUSEWIFE REIGNS SUPREME
   The wise housewife knows that she can exploit the world only through her husband
and children, that she will prosper and enjoy the good life mainly through their
earnings and achievements. She wields an awesome power for good or ill, for to a
large degree she has the choice of whether she will feed her family for fame and fortune or bring ruin upon them all with poor stale food. Starting early enough, she
can through improved food practices do much to obtain a happy prosperous life, to
enjoy a successful loving husband through a long lifetime, and to have strong
beautiful children who will be a joy to her.
   True beauty and charm come from eating high quality fresh foods, in a far more
bountiful way than from cosmetics and beauty treatments. It takes good food to grow
abundant richly colored shining hair and eyelashes, bring sparkle to the eyes and grace to the figure. Peace of mind and contentment also require proper food and many
a case of "nerves" is only the body telling us that it is poorly nourished. And it is
never too late to start, for we are all better than we realize, and you never know what


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was a web start-up company reporting enormous losses,
and Envoy was a well-established, highly profitable
clearinghouse f or health-care  transactions. It was quickly
determined th at we could n ot maintain a competitive
position in light of this deal. From Medical Manager’s
point o f view, the deal meant that our competitor now
owned the clearinghouse through which we were
channeling all of our clients’ hundreds of millions of
claims a year. There were tim es when I was very glad Iwas no longer in charge—late January 2000 was
definitely one of them.4 8.
B u i l d i n g  R o m e  i n  a  D a y
M arty was calm and collected at the ensuing board
meeting. In fact, he seemed even sharper than usual. It
turned out he was just as good at playing downside
situations as he was at lever aging upside opportunities.
He went over the options with the board, and it was
decided we had best try to negotiate a decent merger
agreement with Healtheon/WebMD. It was a classic case
of “ if you can’t  beat them, join them.” The problem was
that we were well aware that the underpinnings of
Healtheon/WebMD were very weak. The company had
been b uilt up  based solely on the vision of future
performance, y et the market was valuing it at $7 billion.
Unfortunately, our most promising road to success
meant merging with them and doing the hard work
necessary to make it all a reality.
As unbelievable as it seems, Medical Manager
Corporation and Healtheon/WebMD announced their
merger agreement just three weeks after we learned of
the Envoy deal. It was on Va lentine’s Day, February 14,
2000. T he dea l valued Medical Manager Corporation at
$3.5 billion, and Wall Street characterized it as the
merger of two behemoths in the health-care industry. It
drew he adlines everywhere. The announcement pushed
Medical Manager’s stock pric e to a peak of $86 a share.
This can  be compared to $17. 60 per share when we went
public three years earlier.
The joy was short-lived. The infamous Internet bubble,
caused by overinflated e xpectations for Internet
companies, began to burst just weeks after the mergerannouncement. We had not even closed the deal, yet by
April 2 000, H ealtheon/WebMD had already lost 70
percent of its valu e. Our stock fell accor dingly because it
was tied  to their stock by the merger agreement. It was
all pretty much a disaster, and the only hope left was to
do the hard work necessary to restructure the entire
company.
The task was Herculean. WebMD was the
quintessential Internet company, and the Internet
bubble had just burst. WebMD’s stock had once traded
above $100 per share. It was  at $17.50 when we closed
the dea l, on its way to a low of $3 in August 2001. This
called for drastic measures, and that is what it got.
Within a month of closing, Marty became chairman of
the board, and he and his elite management team were
running the company. I remained CEO of the Practice
Services Division and sat on t he board of directors of the
combined company, which kept the name WebMD.
Marty brought  in a seasoned turnaround specialist, Marv
Rich, to be president during the massive reorganization.
The company was losing hundreds of millions of dollars
a ye ar and the  bleeding had to be stopped. Marv’s job
was to work his way through all the divisions and cut
them down to core competency. All that would remain
was that which aligned with WebMD’s core vision and
could quickly begin earning its keep.
The task before us was breathtaking, and it provided
tremendous growth for me, personally. I now found
myself part of a team of executives who, instead of
complaining, s imply rolled up their sleeves and tackled
this mo numental project. Eve ryone was working day and
night to do w hatever was needed to right the sinking
ship. For years I had been diligently working to free
myself o f that weak person inside who always insisted on
things b eing the way he wanted. Now, nothing was the
way anybody would have wanted. Yet everyone just took
a collec tive de ep breath and did whatever was asked ofthem. It was an amazing thing to be part of, and it taught
me a lesson of inner strength that permanently changed
me at a very deep level.
Marv called me one day and  asked me to accompany
him to California where the WebMD Internet site was
being developed. If the company we had merged with
had a main asset, this was it. Marv wanted me to a ct as a
development s pecialist at meetings with the website’s
development team. Most of the company’s losses were
being generated by its Internet offerings, and this had to
be dealt with. The problem w as that, despite the losses,
the dev elopment team was making enormous demands
for salaries and benefits from the new WebMD
management. They figured they were in the driver’s seat
since th ey con trolled the development of the company’s
entire Internet offering.
I couldn’t believe what I saw when we arrived. More
than eight hundred developers were working in a giant
converted warehouse in Silicon Valley. It was tiny cubicle
after tin y cubic le as far as the eye could see. I thought my
development team in Alachua had expanded
tremendously. We were aro und 250 people, but this
development team was over three times that size, and
everyone was packed in like sardines.
Unfortunately, the meetings didn’t last very long. Marv
and I sat with their senior management team and
listened to their demands. They had the demands nicely
printed out in great detail on many pages. When they
were done, Marv presented what he was willing to offer,
which f it on one short page. The heads of development
met among themselves and after a very short period of
time came back to Marv with their reply—meet our
demands or we’re leaving.
I had so much  to learn from  people like Marty and
Marv, and I was completely open to the process. I would
have thought that the next step was to figure out who we
couldn’t live without and bite the bullet. That is not whathappened. Marv spent a few minutes relaxing quietly, got
up from his chair, and motioned me to walk with him.
He left the me eting room and called together the entire
development team right then and there in the open
cubicle area. He explained that the top tier of their
management had just resigned and anyone who wanted
to g o with them  should make that decision at this time.
Those w ho wished to stay wo uld not be guaranteed a job,
but ove r the next few weeks we would work together to
see who was needed to keep the core development going.
And tha t was that. Marv left a  few of his people in charge
of sorting out the exodus, and we left.
The onl y thing Marv ever sa id to me about the whole
affair was that if you let peo ple hold you hostage, they
will for ce you to make terrible decisions, and you will
lose. You might as well take y our bumps up front and at
least be in control of your destiny. Who would have
believed that just a few mo nths later, one of Marty’s
senior executives would move the development of the
website to New York and relaunch it with a team of less
than fo rty developers. That new website became the
foundation for WebMD’s entire future.
Again and again I was seeing that each of these
intensely chal lenging business experiences was very
beneficial for my spiritual gro wth. I just kept letting go of
whatever disc omfort got stirred up within me, and
inevitably, a stronger flow of spiritual energy took its
place. This growing strength helped prepare me for life’s
next growth experience: what happened when Marv’s
reorganization team finally got around to taking aim at
my division.
Medical Mana ger Practice Services Division, as we
were known at the time, was  one of the largest divisions
in WebMD. We had grown to almost two thousand
employees, and that made us very ripe for cost cutting.
With that in mind, Marv brought the reorganization
team do wn to Alachua for two  days of meetings. The firstday was devoted to presenting our business plan and
vision for the future. Fortunately, we were well prepared
to take Marv through our current products with their
highly successful revenue generation, as well as the
products and services we were working on for the future.
It certa inly didn’t hurt when Sabrina was able to present
the tremendous growth of Medical Manager Network
Services from a few hundred thousand dollars a year to a
fifty-million-dollar-a-year business in just over three
years.
It was during these presentations that it really hit me
what had happened. John Ka ng and I had set out to be
sure that Medical Manager was not left behind by the
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ul.
ineffectual:Ars.,Canth.,Caust.,Lye,
Merc-s.,Nux-v.,Puis.,Sars.
painful:Merc-c
urgent:Canth.,Nux-v.,Puis.,Sep.,Sul.
Pains:
aching:Lye
burning:Ap.,Ars.,Canth.,Caust.,Merc-c,
Merc-s.,Nux-v.,Sul.
cutting:Canth.,Lye,Sars.
pressing:Aco.,Ap.,Lye,Nux-v.,Sep.
severe:Merc<.
spasmodic:Puis.
stinging:Ap.
stitching:Lye
Urination:
burning:Caust.
constant:Ap.
difficult:Caust.,Merc-c.
dribbling:Merc-c.,Merc-s.,Sars.
frequent:Ap.,Canth.,Caust.,Lye,Merc-c,
Merc-s.,Nux-v.,Puis.,Sars.,Sep.,Stap.
ineffectual:Nux-v.
involuntary:Caust.,Dulc,Stap.
slow:Sars.
canonlypassurinewhilestanding:Sars.
waitslongtimeforittostart:Caust.,Lye
Sep.
withunfinishedfeeling:Ars.,Caust.
Urine:
brownlikebeer:Sul.
burning:Nux-v.,Sul.
J
174•Dazed INTERNALREPERTORY
cloudy:Sep.
copious:Puis.,Sul.
dark:Merc-c,Mercs.
darkbrown:Sep.
green:Merc-c,Sars.
hot:Canth.
pale:Sars.
red:Canth.,Merc-c,Sep.
scanty:Canth.,Merc-c,Merc-s.,Nux-v.,Sep..
Stop.,Sul.
smelly:Sep.,Sul.
withsediment:Sars.,Sep.
withmucus:Sars.
Better:
afterurination:Lye
heat:Ars.
forsittinginahotbath:Ars.
Worse:
colddrinks:Canth.
aftergettingupinthemorning:Sul.
afterafewdropsofurinehavepassed:
Canth.
afterurinating:Canth.,Puis.
atthebeginningofurinating:Canth.,Merc-s.
attheendofurination:Sars.
beforeurinating:Canth.
duringamenstrualperiod:Sars.,Sep.
whennoturinating:Merc-s.
whileurinating.Canth.,Caust.,Merc-c,
Nux-v.,Sul.
atnight:Sul.
Causes:
cold,wetweather:Sars.
gettingchilled:Aco.,Sars.
gettingcoldandwet:Dulc.,Puis.
Dazed(seealsoShock;Stupor)Cocc.
Delirious Bell.
Denial
Ofillness:Am.
Ofsuffering:Am.
Depressed(seealsoTearful)Ars.,Calc-c,Carb-a.,
Caust.,Cham.,Chin.,Cimi.,Con.,Eup-p.,
Ferr-m.,Gels.,Ign.,Kali-p.,Lach.,Lye,
Merc-s.,Nat-c,Nat-m.,Nat-s.,Nit-ac,
Pho-ac,Puis.,Rhus-t.,Sep.,Sul.,Zinc.
Cannotcry:Gels.,Ign.,Nat-m.
Criesonown:Ign.,Nat-m.
Better:
freshair:Puis.
Worse:
beforemenstrualperiod:Nat-m.,Puis.
stuffyroom:Puis.
onwaking:Lach.,Lye
evening:Puis.
Causes:
suppressedgrief:Ign.,Nat-m.,Puis.Desires
Company:Arg-n.,Ars.,Kali-c,Lye,Phos.
Tobealone:Bar-c,Carb-a.,Cham.,Gels.,Ign.,
Nat-m.,Sep.
Tobecarried(infants):Cham.,Puis.
DespairArs.,Calc-c,Coff.
Ofgettingwell:Ars.,Calc-c.
Despondent (seealsoDepression)Chin.
DiarrhoeaAnt-c,Ap.,Arg-n.,Ars.,Bor.,Bry.,
Calc-c,Cham.,Chin.,Colch.,Coloe,Dulc,
Ferr-m.,Gels.,Hep-s.,Ip.,Mag-c,Mag-m.,
Merc-c,Merc-s.,Nat-m.,Nat-s.,Nux-v.,
Petr.,Pho-ac,Phos.,Podo.,Puis.,Rhe.,
Rhus-t.,Sil.,Sul.,Sul-ac,Ver-a.
Alternatingwith:
constipation:Podo.
constipationinelderlypersons:Ant-c.
headache:Podo.
Belly/stomach:
bloated:Nat-m.
gurgling:Nat-s.,Podo.
rumbling:Nat-s.,Pho-ac,Podo.
Children:lp.,Mag-m.,Merc-s.,Podo.,Puis.,Sul.
Daytimeonly:Nat-m.,Petr.
Drivespersonoutofbed:Sul.
Elderlypersons:y4rs.
Exhausting:Ver-a.
Involuntary: Ver-a.
Morningonly:Sul.
Pains:Ars.,Cham.,Colch.,Dulc,Mag-c,Merc-c,
Merc-s.
burning:Ars.,Merc-s.,Sul.,Ver-a.
colicky:Mag-c
cramping:Mag-c,Sul.
cutting:Ver-a.
dull/aching:Ver-a.
afterpassingastool:Ars.,Colch.
pressing:Petr.
severe:Merc-c.
Painless:Ap.,Bor.,Chin.,Ferr-m.,Hep-s.,Nat-m.,
Phos.,Podo.,Sul.
Stools:
blood-streaked: Phos.
bloody:Merc-c,Merc-s.
changeable:Puis.
copious:Ver-a.
frequent:Merc-c,Phos.,Podo.,Ver-a.
frothy:Mag-c
grassgreen:lp.
green:Arg-n.,Cham.,Coloc,Mag-c,Mag-m.,
Merc-c,Merc-s.,Ver-a.
greenish-yellow: Puis.
gushing:Nat-m.,Podo.
jelly-like:Colch.
hot:Cham.
involuntary:Podo.
INTERNALREPERTORY Diarrhoea •175
withmucus:Bor.,Colch.
mushy:Rhus-t.
painless:Nat-m.,Phos.,Podo.
passedwithwind:Ferr-m.
pasty:Coloc,Rhe.
profuse:Pho-ac,Phos.,Podo.
slimy:Mag-c,Merc-c,Mercs.,Puis.,Sul.
small,hardlumps:Ant-c.
smelly:Arg-n.,Ars.,Merc-c,Merc-s.,Nat-m.
Nat-s.,Podo., Sul.
smellingofrotteneggs:Cham.
soft:Sul-ac.
soursmelling:Calc-c,Mag-c,Rhe.,Sul.
stringy:Sul-ac
sudden:Podo.
thin:Nat-s.,Pho-ac.
withundigestedfood:Calc-c,Chin.,Ferr-m.
yellow:Dulc,Merc-c,Merc-s.,Sul-ac.
watery:Ant-c,Arg-n.,Ars.,Calc-c,Colch.,
Dulc,Nat-m.,Nat-s.,Pho-ac,Phos.,Puis.,
Rhus-t.,Sul.,Ver-a.
white:Pho-ac.
Strainingfrequent/painful: Merc-c.
Inteethingchildren:Calc-c,Cham.,Dulc,
Ferr-m.,Rhe.,Sil.
Violent:Ver-a.
With:
belching:Ferr-m.
sourbelching:Sul-ac.
colic:Coloc.
exhaustion:Ars.,Podo.,Ver-a.
flatulence:Arg-n.,Ferr-m.,Nat-s.,Sil.,Sul.
icy-coldhandsandfeet:Ars.,Phos.,Ver-a.
indigestion:Chin.
ravenousappetite:Pctr.
sweating:Ars.,Merc-s.,Ver-a.
during/afterpassingstool:Ver-a.
before/during/after stool:Merc-s.
vomiting:Arg-n.,Ver-a.
sour:Sul-ac.
wind:
loud:Nat-s.
smelly:Nat-s.,Sil.,Sul.
spluttering:Nat-s.
Withoutweakness:Pho-ac.
Better:
coldfood:Phos.
freshair:Puis.
heat:Sil.
passingwind:Nat-s.,Sul.
warmthofbed:Sil.
wrappingupwarmly:Sil.
Worse:
onalternatedays:Chin.
around4a.m.:Podo.
5a.m.:Sul.afternoon:Chin.
beforepassingastool(pains):Mag-c,
Merc-c.
duringpassingastool:Merc-c
afterpassingastool:Merc-c,Merc-s.
cold:Ars.,Merc-s.
gettingchilled:Phos.
afterdrinkingcoldfood/drinks:Ars.
afterdrinking:Ars.,Arg-n.,Ver-a.
afterdrinkingwater:Ferr-m.,Nux-v.,Podo.
immediatelyafterdrinking:Arg-n.,Podo.
aftereating:Ars.,Chin.,Coloc,Podo.,Puis.
whileeating:Ferr-m.
eatingcoldfood:Dulc.
eatingstarchyfood:Nat-m.,Nat-s.,Puis.
evening:Merc-s.
aftereatingfruit:Ars.,Coloc,Nat-s.
aftergettingupinthemorning:Bry.,Nat-s.
hotweather:Podo.
duringamenstrualperiod:Ver-a.
aftermidnight:Ars.
mid


 a fever. These are not diseases, but a natural response by the
body to increase the elimination that is vital to getting well.
If you do not sweat, your skin becomes congested, leading to dryness orinflammation. Many females have this problem so they use moisturizers to
make the skin soft and oily again. This only adds to the problem, as these
lotions add to the congestion in the subcutaneous layers
of the skin.
Congestion and toxicity block the skin’s oil ducts and exit pores, making the
skin dry and scaly. The health of your skin is an internal issue not an external
one. In other words, a healthy body inside means healthy skin outside. If you
must feed the skin externally, use pure, raw, organic grape seed oil or olive
oil. Or mixed tocopherol vitamin E, jojoba oil or pure essential oils would be
advised.
If you have hypothyroidism, which 60 to 70 percent of the population
does, you will have a difficult time perspiring. The thyroid gland affects
one’s ability to sweat, either making you sweat too much or not enough. Lack
of exercise and low activity is another reason people do not sweat enough.
Refer to
Chapter 9
,
Healthy Habits,
 and read the sections on cold-sheet
treatments and dry skin brushing. These are just two simple ways to increase
skin elimination. A raw food diet is just as essential to great skin health as it is
for the health of any cell. When your skin begins to prolapse (drop) or
wrinkle, this is not old age. This is skin weakness.
You must care for your skin as you would any vital organ. Remember
that the thyroid and liver are related to the skin, so detoxify the liver and keep
your thyroid functioning properly. Use the Basal Temperature Test (see
Appendix A
) for a more accurate determination of your thyroid function.
Enjoy healthy skin. As you detoxify and regenerate, your whole body
will thank you and pay you back with robust health. I have helped people of
eighty and ninety years of age to regain vibrant, healthy, wrinkle-free, toned
and tightened skin. The body is a most wondrous, intelligent machine. Take
care of yours, as it is your vehicle during your earthly stay.
MODULE 5.10
Mind, Emotions and the Cells

Up to this point we have been discussing the impact and effect that the
various foods and toxins you consume have upon your body. Let’s examine
the more subtle processes that affect you and your body and also create
disease.The two most powerful tools you use to create your experience here in
the physical world are your mind and your emotions. Your physical body is
just a clay shell that carries your awareness around. You would not be able to
create the events in your life if it were not for the thought processes that allow
you to imagine the sequence of events you wish to experience. Without the
emotions, however, there would be no desire to create. As the mind takes
images of the past and present and puts them together to create the future, it is
the emotions that drive you to manifest these images. The stronger your
feelings are toward some idea or image, the more you’re going to “experience
the experience,” no matter what it is. Added to these twin creative aspects is
your ego, which is your sense of individuality. Put all these together and you
have the play of life.
The mind and emotions can work for us in a positive manner, or against
us in a negative manner by controlling and enslaving us. I suggest that you
use your mind and emotions to enhance and revitalize you. Remember, the
mind works from images. What you imagine becomes your reality on one
level or another. So, turn this process to your benefit. Imagine yourself
healthy and vital. This is where your emotions can come in. Get excited about
a new life, full of vitality and vibrancy. Let your emotions be the drive to
your success. Read and surround
yourself with books and information on
raw foods and detoxification. It is vital that we, as souls, understand our
bodies, for they are our vehicles on this journey through creation. You must
learn how to properly use the body for your highest good. What you create
mentally and emotionally becomes your experience.
True health and vitality is found when we have these mental and
emotional “bodies” in balance. Each of these bodies impact one another.
Your emotions, especially the negative ones like anger, hate, and jealousy,
can make your physical body sick and full of disease. These emotions are
stored in the liver and kidneys. They block proper pancreatic function
(digestion) and other glandular functions as well. Emotions can even shut
down our mind, affecting our ability to comprehend, think and make rational
decisions. They especially can close off the heart centers. Once the heart
center is closed, your ability to get healthy drastically decreases, even to the
point where death is the inevitable result.
Among the cancer clients whom I could not help were those who had
their heart center closed, for one reason or another, and had a hard time
opening to love. In some people this is a complex and deep-seated issue. This
is where meditation, deep personal prayer, and spiritual counseling comes in.One should start enjoying life for what it is. Observe nature and surround
yourself with flowers and plants, as these are very healing. Nature embraces
with energies of love. If we can let go of the past, we can enjoy every
moment for what it is. Let all hate, anger, and opinions go. Give them over to
God. An old saying I use personally is, “Let go and let God.”
Love, happiness, joy, health and mental control all keep the heart open.
Unhappiness, depression, despair, anger, jealousy, rage, envy and negative
states shut down or keep the heart center closed. The mind must also be kept
in control. They say the mind is a great servant but a lousy, even destructive,
master.
The thinking process keeps us from enjoying the present moment, the
“eternal now” as it is called. Remember when you were a child and the
present moment seemed to last forever? Those days were long and filled with
play and excitement. As you grew up, these timeless moments were lost at the
hands of thought and desire. The way teaching is done in most of our school
systems promotes competition and limits free thinking, just as the materialistic
world of possessions limits freedom and happiness. These circumstances
have greatly reduced our overall awareness and our ability to experience
God, the source of true vitality, happiness and bliss.
By detoxifying your physical body you can start a chain of events that
will allow you to clean and bring under control your emotional and mental
processes. You can help this process by allowing old thought patterns and the
emotions that can surface during detoxification to finally be released and
forgotten. There are several ways to do this.
Begin by watching your thoughts. Step away from them and become the
observer. Become detached about the outcome of things and from other
people’s opinions and emotions. Let go. Give it all over to spirit, God, the
wind … whatever you believe in. Let go of all of your negative emotions and
mental chains. This allows the greatest healing power to flow through you
and your mental, emotional and physical bodies, bringing a vibrancy and
awareness that is indescribable and rare. Enjoy life moment by moment.
Allow yourself the freedom to expand and experience. Break out of the old
conditioned states of thinking and feeling and become vibrant and healthy.
Do it now!
GLANDS, EMOTIONS AND HEALTH
It is important to note that when your glandular system is out of balance, so
are you. This is
especially true of the triad: the pituitary, thyroid and adrenal
glands.
When the thyroid is hypoactive, calcium utilization drops. This can bring
on all types of states of depression from mild to chronic. When the adrenal
glands become hypoactive, anxieties can overwhelm you. Responses vary
from mild shyness and introversion, to apprehension, to chronic worry and
anxiety, to acute anxiety attacks, to paralyzing fear and reclusiveness. Bipolar
disorder, schizophrenia and other similar conditions are all manifestations of
the above, as they affect your calcium, serotonin, neurotransmitters, and the
like. This is why the health of your physical body is so important to your
mental and emotional bodies. They are all interconnected to the point that you
experience all three as one expression.
Summary

Learn the secrets that lead to the health and vitality of your physical body,
emotions and mind. Take charge of these tools or bodies. They are your
instruments of expression while you are in this world. Detox and clean your
body. Let all your emotions be carried away or replaced with love. Go
beyond your mind into the world of the Now. Be “you”—not your mind.
Only use thought to create what you need, not what you want.
MODULE 5.11
Body Language: What is Your Body Trying to Tell You

Nothing happens in life without a reason. All things exist and change from a
cause. If you take a long walk down the road, it’s because you decided by
thought and emotion (the desire) to do so. Cells in your body are the same
way. They act and respond via thought and emotions. However, the types of
thoughts and emotions that act upon the cells are