.
One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a
feeling of emptiness in one’ s life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows
a new one. In an analogous way, when a human being suf fers an emotional
loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often responds by developing a
new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth, we
can prevent growth gone wrong within us. In like manner, researchers have
found, if a salamander is given cancer on a limb or tail and the appendage is
then amputated near the tumor, a new limb or tail appears and the cancer
cells become normal again. We know that the human body tries to heal
some cancers, such as neuroblastoma, by changing the malignant cells back
to normal in the same way, as well as by attacking them. Thus it is my main
job as a doctor to help you develop into a new person so you can resist the
unwanted, uncontrolled development of illness.
If I transplant a kidney into you and give you drugs that inhibit your
immune system, the graft will take. Later we may find that the transplanted
kidney contained a cancer. The kidney and cancer will both thrive. If I take
away the drugs that keep your body from rejecting the kidney, the new
organ will be destroyed, and so will the cancer. A vigorous immune systemcan overcome cancer if it is not interfered with, and emotional growth
toward greater self-acceptance and fulfillment helps keep the immune
system strong.
Depression’ s effects on the immune system often appear very quickly if
some remnant of a previous disease remains. Arnold, a patient who had had
malignant melanoma and had been in remission for seven years, came to me
with a recurrence in a lymph node in his armpit. I asked what had happened
in his life during the last six months. He told me he had brought up all his
children himself, because his wife had been mentally ill. The last child, a
son to whom he was especially close, had just gotten married and left home.
He’d been so depressed by his son’ s departure that he’d cried for weeks.
Despair had depressed Arnold’ s immune response, allowing residual
cancer cells that had been under control to multi ply again. As part of his
therapy we brought together his children and the rest of the family, to help
plan new interests and social activities for him, as well as to find ways in
which the others could remain close to him. He was able to understand the
physical danger of sinking into despair and self-pity. He began to
participate in staying well by learning to deal with the unavoidable
emotional problems of his life. He eventually died of his disease, but his
remaining time was filled with happiness from the love of his family, new
friends, and a girlfriend.
Depression as defined by psychologists generally involves quitting or
giving up. Feeling that present conditions and future possibilities are
intolerable, the depressed person “goes on strike” from life, doing less and
less, and losing interest in people, work, hobbies, and so on. Such
depression is strongly linked with cancer. Dr. Bernard Fox of Boston, for
example, found that depressed men are twice as likely to get cancer as
nondepressives. A study of identical twins, one of whom in each pair had
leukemia, showed that the one with the disease had become severely
depressed or suf fered an emotional loss beforehand, while the healthy twin
had not. However, there is a specific form of depression even more closely
related to malignancy.
Typical depressed patients, by abdicating normal activity, are at least
offering some response to what they perceive as an unbearable situation.
The reaction is negative, but at least it’ s an attempt to back away. Many
people, however, continue with their routines and an outward show of
happiness, when on the inside their lives have come to lack all meaning.These persons are seldom diagnosed as clinically depressed, because they
manage to keep functioning. Their state is the “quiet desperation” of James
Thurber ’s Walter Mitty, meek and obliging on the outside, but filled with
unacknowledged rage and frustration.
A cancer patient named Sandy, for example, wrote me a long letter
explaining how she’d become conditioned to be a “doormat” most of her
life. In her teens she’d trained as a singer and actress, even studying in a
noted experimental theater group. She told me that, each time she came of f
the stage flushed with excitement, her mother would say, “It was good.
Keep practicing and maybe next time  you’ll do better.” Her mother likewise
greeted every report card with “ Next time  see if you can bring me all A’s.”
Sandy had a lovely, voluptuous figure, but her mother always told her,
“Don’ t eat this, don’ t eat that, you’re too fat.” By her late teens, Sandy’ s
self-confidence was so low that she only sang at the back of the church
choir, and pretty soon not even there.
Then, just out of high school, Sandy got married:

We never knew each other until it was too late. Being Catholic, I had to
try to make it work out. We had three kids, three years apart…. [My
husband] worked two jobs—I did odd jobs cleaning houses whenever I
could. My Mother was there every day “to see the kids,” and she would
constantly remind me that no one would hire me because I was too fat and
that, besides, what could I ever do to earn any money? When I reminded her
that I used to be a legal secretary…she would brush that of f with, “W ell,
you can’ t go to work until the kids are in school. I can’ t take care of them,
they are too much work, and I forbid you to have strangers raising my
grandchildren.”

Sandy was always getting sick, and her mother was always there
reminding her how tired she must be and how ungrateful she was for all her
mother did for her. Her husband started staying out all night, then coming
home drunk and beating her up. When she asked him for a divorce, he put
the whole family in the car, took them to the edge of a clif f and threatened
to drive of f unless she promised never again to talk of leaving him. She
made the promise and kept it.Although she tried to keep up appearances, Sandy decided, on an
unconscious level, to be sick. She developed phlebitis and stayed in bed all
the time, having no relationship with her husband. After he was killed in an
auto accident, her phlebitis cleared up within days. Later, during a second
marriage in which she again took a subordinate role, Sandy developed
breast cancer. At that time she redirected her life and is well today.
During more than two decades of research into the men tal aspects of
cancer, experimental psychologist Lawrence LeShan conducted personality
studies of 455 cancer patients and in-depth therapy of 71 “terminal” cases.
He found that this condition of “despair” (so named to distinguish it from
the more commonly recognized form of depression) was reported as
predating the disease by 68 of his 71 cancer patients in therapy, but by only
3 of 88 other clients who did not have cancer. In The W ill to Live  Arnold
Hutschnecker wrote, “Depression is a partial surrender to death, and it
seems that cancer is despair experienced at the cellular level.”
The relationship between cancer and withheld emotion was put on a
scientific basis over thirty years ago when internist D. M. Kissen studied a
group of smokers, comparing those who had lung cancer with those having
other diseases. Based on personality tests, Kissen found the cancer patients
had poorer “outlets for emotional dischar ge,” and concluded that, the more
repressed a person was, the fewer cigarettes were needed to cause cancer.
Working with breast-cancer patients, Mogens Jensen of the Yale
psychology department showed that “defensive-repressors” die faster than
patients with a more realistic outlook. These are the smiling ones who don’ t
acknowledge their desperation, who say, “I’m fine,” even though you know
they have cancer, their spouses have run of f, their children are drug addicts,
and the house just burned down. Jensen feels this behavior “disregulates”
and exhausts the immune system because it is confused by the mixed
messages.
Thus, when a patient tells me he or she is fine, I have to know whether
it’s a performance or the truth. One must be careful when evaluating a
patient who says cancer is not stressful. It may not be if it’ s a solution to
life’s problems. Then again, if one can face the disease with peace of mind
instead of fear, it becomes a challenging stress rather than a purely
destructive one. The outcomes will be dif ferent, and they will not be
interpreted properly unless the attitudes are carefully measured by
psychological testing.Jensen also noted that those with imagery or daydreams that were
always positive, in the sense of denying illness or the possibility of death,
had a poor chance of survival. Imaging techniques don’ t work with people
who deny, because they can’ t accept their illness and therefore don’ t really


 a common symptom in several systemic
disorders. Even though tackling the main disorder is the easy step to relieve
from the complaint, usually it takes several weeks to month’s period to give
complete relief from burning sensation of the head. In addition, if burning
sensation is persistent for prolonged period it will take away the pleasure and
concentration of the individuals.
So people who are suﬀering from burning of the scalp surface are in search
of safe and eﬀective home remedies to pacify the complaint.
Here are four important, time tested and safe home remedies to relieve from
burning of the head. Even while taking the internal medication of any kind or
system also these home remedies can be practiced by which added benets can
be availed.
Aloe Vera Pulp is taken, added with double quantity of water,
squeezed. is is kept as it is for 10–15 minutes. Later, it is applied
over the middle of the scalp. Or else a cotton cloth is dipped in this
juice and placed in the middle of the head and to easier the procedure
it can be tied later.
Usually within 15 minutes good relief is found. It is used in lack of
sleep with burning sensation of eyes.2.
3.
4.10 ml Buﬀalo’s Ghee (or cow ghee) is added with a pinch of camphor
(Bheemaseni kapoor) and rubbed well. is is kept in between the
bandage cloth (or small piece of cloth/towel) and kept over the scalp.
e patient is asked to lie down later.
Burning sensation is relieved soon.
Note: If the person is allergic to camphor, better to avoid this remedy. Or
else, the person may suﬀer with cold or running nose.
Leaf of Bimbi (Courgette/Ivy Gourd) and Malabar Spinach (Basella
Rubra) are made into ne paste and applied over the middle of the
scalp.
Burning of the scalp followed by nasal bleeding is also relieved by this.
It is also useful in sleeplessness.
Freshly prepared Onion Juice is mixed with ghee and coconut milk
and mixed together thoroughly. is becomes a viscous emulsion. is
is applied over the scalp and sole.
is reduces the burning sensation and induces good sleep especially in
children it is having very signicant eﬀect.1.
2.167. 4 Remedies for
Blackheads, Pimple Scars
Using Saffron, Turmeric
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
As per Ayurveda, black heads and pimple scars are due to Pitta aggravation or
imbalance. During these conditions, oral medicines and external application –
both are used for the treatment. Here are a few remedies that you can try at
home for black heads and acne scars.
Red Sandalwood Recipe
Red sandalwood is rubbed against the stone by adding little water. Fine
paste is obtained.
To this little Natural Red oxide (Gairika; Red ochre in English, Geru
in Hindi) is added and ne paste is made.
is is applied to the aﬀected area of the face twice daily and
retained for 1–2 hour.
After that, it is  washed oﬀ with hot water.
7–8 days of this paste application yields good results.
Neem Bark – Aloe Vera Paste3.
4.Neem bark (fresh or dried) is rubbed well with Aloe vera juice and ne
paste is prepared.
Regular application helps to decrease the marks and black heads.
Turmeric Compound Mixture
Turmeric and Berberis (Tree turmeric/Berberis aristata) are taken in
their ne powder form and mixed well with cow’s milk. To this little
talcum powder is added and mixed thoroughly.
If this is applied once or twice daily signicant benet can be
observed in any kind of markings of the face and soft body parts.
Saﬀron and Ghee
In a small china clay/porcelain mortar, half teaspoon of ghee is added
and 3–4 saﬀron strands. e mix is triturated well.
When this becomes reddish yellow, this is applied over the wet face.1.168. 4 Remedies for Feeling
Cold: Mustard Oil,
Eucalyptus Oil, Ginger,
Coffee
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Cold associated with shivering is very common during winter. Some people are
naturally sensitive to coldness. Such people are quite naturally hesitating to
move in AC cars or vehicles as they are prone to get cold and even the fever
too.
Here, not only the season or food but also the individual’s constitution
(especially if they are Vata or Kapha dominant) and mental aspects have direct
impact over cold sensitivity.
Please note that shivering or feeling of cold is common in certain diseases
such as fever, anaemia, gout, arthritis, rheumatism, SLE, calcium deciency
etc.  e below mentioned remedies are useful for season and food based feeling
of cold.
Mustard Oil Remedy: (Sarso ka tel)
Mustard oil is hot in nature. Take 5–10 ml of mustard oil (1–2
teaspoon), warm it.
It is applied over forehead, arms and legs.2.
3.
4.Or it can be applied to palms and feet.
It can be applied at bed time or can be washed oﬀ after 30 minutes
with hot water.
ose who possess rough and tight skin, a pinch of salt is advised to
add to this oil while heating.
Eucalyptus Oil Remedy: (Nilgiri Taila)
6–10 drops of Eucalyptus oil is added to hot water and the steam is
inhaled and this is a common practice in cases like common cold, nasal
congestion, head ache, heaviness of the head etc.
When shivering is an associated symptom, a pinch of camphor and
2–3 drops of mint oil or pepper oil (if available, or else powdered
pepper can be added) is added to this and applied to the forehead. is
helps to reduce most of the cold associated features.
Dhattura Seed/Brinjal and Oil Recipe
20–30 seeds of Dhattura (in the absence 40–50 seeds of Brinjal can
also be used) are soaked in sesame oil for a day. is is added with a
pinch of turmeric powder and ginger powder and warmed a little
under sunlight.
is oil can be used to inhale 2–3 times a day in nasal congestion
followed with cold, stiﬀness of the neck and shivering.
Ginger – Jaggery Green Coﬀee
is is a unique kind of coﬀee preparation used by the people of
Malnad area of Karnataka.
Coﬀee decoction is kept ready. To one cup of boiled water (milk is
not added) jaggery is added and dissolved.Further ginger powder is added a little and kept for a while (some
people use pepper powder even).
is is taken early in the morning so as to avoid the cold and
shivering. In early winter this is a common practice in many village
people of Malnad area where raining happens for around six months of
the year.1.
2.
3.169. 5 Easy Home
Remedies for Morning
Stiffness in Joints
Y
Morning stiﬀness is a common complaint in majority of the patients who are
suﬀering from rheumatoid arthritis. It is also seen in degenerative disorders.
Cold weather, sedentary life, overweight, heavy food, altered digestion strength
are a few factors which could worsen joint stiﬀness.
e below remedies can be used in adjunct with the disease treatment.
Medicated Milk of Castor Root and Ginger Rhizome
1 teaspoon each of castor roots and ginger rhizome are taken and
cooked well with 120 ml milk and 240 ml of water and reduced to
approximately 200 ml. Filtered. is method of preparation is called
ksheerapaka in Ayurveda.
is is administered to the patient preferably at night. is
considerably decreases early morning stiﬀness in joints.
Decoction of Cumin Seeds and Asafoetida
8–10 Grams of cumin seeds are taken and fried with little ghee. To this
200 ml water is added and boiled till it is reduced to 100–120 ml. To
this ghee fried asafoetida (half pinch) is added and consumed before or
after food in the morning to relieve joint stiﬀness.
Hot Infusion of Black Pepper with Honey4.
5.One cup of hot water is taken and to this one teaspoon of black pepper
powder is added and kept for a while. When it is lukewarm, half spoon
of honey is added and taken. is eases the joint movements.
Fine Paste/Bandage of Dhattura Leaf


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Endive - 38
Endocrine Glands - 63, 65
Enemas - 33, 55
Enzymes - 3-7
Eyes - 28, 30, 39. 48-49
Fennel (Finocchio) - 40
Fish - 43
Fruits are Cleansers - 8
Gall Bladder - 23-25
Gall Stones - 23-25
Gangrene - 73
Garlic - 40
Gas - 25, 26, 51
Gastric - 51
Germs - 61-62
Glands - 63-65
Goats' Milk - 12,29
Gout - 51
Gravel - 23
Green Peppers - 50
Gums - 55
Hair - 20, 37, 45, 50
Hay Fever - 39
Headaches - 55
Heart -18-19, 39, 55
Heat - 7, 36
Hemorrhage - 55
Hemorrhoids - 23, 34, 37, 47, 60
Hormones - 64
Horseradish - 41
Hydraulic Press -15
117 Hydrochloric Acid - 67 Pregnancy - 27, 38
Hyperacidity - 59 Prostate-21, 24
Insulin - 25, 58-59 Proteins - 20
Intestinal Parasites - 40-41 Pyorrhea - 26, 38, 55
Iodine - 43 Radish - 52
Jerusalem Artichokes - 42 Radium - 31
Juicers - 9, 13-14, 79 Rheumatic Fever - 53
Kale - 43 Rheumatism - 20, 37, 53
Kelp - 43-44 Rhubarb - 52
Kidney Trouble - 24, 34, 48 Romaine Lettuce - 46
Laxatives - 54 Salt - 26. 35, 53
Leeks - 44 Sanitation - 75
Lettuce - 44, 46 Sauerkraut - 53
Liquefiers -14 Sciatica - 51
Liver - 24, 27, 44-45 Seaweeds - 43-44
Lungs - 45, 50 Sex Glands - 24
Malic Acid - 58, 65 Sinus -19,41-42, 52
Menopause - 21 Skin - 27-28, 37, 45
Menstruation - 21, 40, 49, 67 Smoking - 36
Milk - 11-12, 67-69 Sorrel - 53, 54
Milk of Magnesia - 38 Spinach - 54-56
Miscarriage - 55 Spleen - 39, 45
Molecules (Blood) - 33 Sprays -13-14
Molecules (Carrot) - 33 Starches & Sugars - Read the book
Mucus-41-42, 52, 61-63 DIET & SALAD
Muscles - 45, 51 Sterility - 28, 55
Mustard Greens - 47 Stones (kidney) - 23-24
Nails - 37, 50 String Beans - 58
Nephritis - 48 Teeth - 38-59
Nerves - 36, 45, 49, 51 Therapeutic Use - 77
Neuritis - 55 Thyroid - 43-44, 55
Nursing - 27 Tomato - 58
Onion - 47 Tonsils - 27, 64
Optic System - 48, 49 Toxemia - 7
Oxalic Acid - 56-57 Trace Elements - 44
Papaya - 47 Triturators -15, 79
Paralysis - 55-56 Tuberculosis - 46, 50
Parasites (Intestinal) - 40-41 Turnips - 59
Parsley - 48-49 Ulcers - 25-26, 28, 48, 55
Parsnips - 50 Varicose Veins - 22, 35, 66
Pasteurized Milk - 67-69 Veins - 22, 35, 66
Peristalsis - 56-57 Vinegar - 65
Pesticides -13-14 Virus-61-62
Pineal Gland - 64 Watercress - 61
Pneumonia - 50
Potassium Broth - 49
Potato - 51
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 of their cattle (see arrows). Phosmet is an organophosphate, and the highly
toxic insecticide, which can cause severe neurological damage, is used against
warble flies. The illustration shows the place (neck) where phosmet is applied.
The toxin penetrates through the skin into the bloodstream and thus damages the
central nervous system.
government, but also the insecticide manufacturers. This is certainly not a desirable
outcome for the powers that be, and, so, clear connections are allowed to disappear
into a fog of prions.
Incidenta lly, the poisoning or intoxication hypotheses are easy to test, and, in
contrast to the virus or prion hypothe ses, they are confutable, meaning proof that a
theory is right or wrong through toxicologic and epidemiologic verification. But
unfortunately, these tests have not been carried out. 39
Regrettably, for about ten years, the trend has increasingly been towards the
scaling down of toxicological institutes, while pharmaceutical institutes gain ever
more significance. Through this, the critical aspects of toxicology (poisonous nature
of medications and other chemical substances) increasin gly disappear into the
backgro und, because the primary focus is researching medications.
172 BSE: The Epidemic That Never Was
Besides phosmet, other poisonous substances could impair the health of the
cattle, such as poisoning by the heavy metal manganese. In factory farming, high
amounts of manganese are fed to chickens, whereupon, by way of the processing of
the chicken droppings, the heavy metal gets into the meat and bone meal and into
the cattle.40
Experts also refer to a possible copper deficiency, which could have attacked the
cattle's nerves. Such copper deficiencies can produce severe neurological defects
and have been seen for a long time in grazing animal. Among experts, these are
described as "endemic ataxia."41 42
BSE Is No t an Infect ious Disease
The assumption that BSE is an epidemic in Great Britain, caused by an infectious
agent called a prion in meat and bone meal has not been proven. To prove this, at
least a controlled feed experiment with cattle herds would have been necessa ry. But
this wasn't done. "According to published data on the epidemic's appearance and
spread, a plausible alternative hypothesis could be that a recessive genetic defect
had accumulated in a few cattle herds," states Scholz. "The cause would be the
excessive breeding in the pursuit of the best possible efficien cy in milk production,
in which, as a negative result of breeding, an increased predisposition to contract
BSE was coincidentally bred-in without being noticed for a long time."
But, it's more likely that the BSE epidemic in England was precipitated by a
genetically determined predisposition combined with other stresses (poisoning with
insecticides or heavy metals, copper deficiency or autoimmune reaction), to which
BSE-prone animals are particularly sensitive and, thus, get sick earlier. Or exposure
to toxins like phosmet could be responsib le. All of these theories bring us to this
conclusion: BSE is not an infectious disease.
If there is no reason to assume that this disease is transmitted from animal to
animal and from species to species, it makes no sense to fight it by exterminating
healthy animals or entire herds.
The assertion that human health is endangered by BSE derives from the unproven
"prions in meat and bone meal" hypothe sis. This claim based on a conjecture is
nothing but pure speculation.
vCJD (the new variant Creutzf eldt-Jakob disease) is not a new disease, but rather
a once-rare diagnosis that has recently become more common (even if 1 in 5 million
is still very rare). The risk of contracting vCJD through the ingestion of beef products
(including the brain, declared to be the risk material) is minimal in comparison to
the numerous risks of everyday life.43
173 Cha pter 6
SARS: Hysteria on the Heels of AIDS and BSE
"A universal human problem is: if after a long search and pain ful
uncertainty, we finall y believe we can explain a certain issue. The
emotional commitment that we have made can be so large that
we pr efer to declare unden iable facts that contradict our
expla nation to be untrue or insubstan tial, instead of adapting our
explanation to these facts. That such retouching of reality could
have considerable consequen ces for our adaptation to reality
goes without saying. "1
Paul Watzlawick
(From his book How Real Is Real?)
'What I believe and what I can prove,
those are two different pairs of boot s."
Columbo
TV series, Columbo
(Episode "Murder Among Brothers," 1995)
First 9/11, Next the War in Iraq-and then SARS?
If one believes the media, the world has repeatedly been devastated by large new
epidemics over the last two decades. At the beginning of the 1980s, AIDS appeared,
a few years later came hepatitis C, followed by BSE in the 1990s and by 2003, SARS
(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom e). But these new epidemics differ from
epidemics of the past on one decisive point: while the plague, cholera and typhoid
fever ruined whole cities, the number of those actually affected by the new epidemics
is comparatively small.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, just a few hundred people die from AIDS
each year in Germany. As for hepatitis C, we are still waiting for the liver cirrhosis
epidemic. And the BSE epidemic has not presented most countries with a single
clinical case, but rather only positively tested animals.
Although death from so-called infectious diseases is increasingly becoming a
rarity (here in Germany less than 1% of all mortalities), our modern world is plagued
by epidemic fear. How else could a few cases of pneumonia-and that is what it was
175 Chapter 6
all about with the SARS patient s-invoke such fear in Chinese citizens that, en masse,
in large cities like Hong Kong and Singapore/ they put surgical masks over their
mouths? Such masks could be found on every desk in the Chinese province of
Ningbo? 3 The Ind ustrial and Commercial Bank of China and the City Commercial
Bank of China decided to stash bank notes away for 24 hours before bringing them
back into circulation (in the hope that the SARS virus would waste away on the
notes during this time?) and even went as far as sterilizing money by exposing it to
ultraviolet light for four hours and by treating it with disinfectants. 4
The German sporting goods manufacturer Adidas, which produces more than
half of its worldwide-sold sneakers in China, reacted with emergency response
plans; even relocating production to Indonesia was consider ed. But first, activism
on a smaller scale was practiced when a strike force distributed a leaflet of hygiene
regulations to factory workers asking if all workers wore protective masks and
regularly washed their hands.
German chemical giant BASF reported, meanwhile, that they had experienced an
outbreak in their office, when a Chinese secretary became ill over a weekend. But
luckily, all 250 employees already knew about this come Monday: after the first
reports on SARS, BASF had ordered every employee to carry a card with the
telephone numbers of three colleagues in their pockets, so that in case of emergency,
everyone was required to call the colleagues immedi ately. So, over that weekend,
the news had gone viral via phone lines and 20 people who worked closely with the
ill secretary were ordered to stay at home. Simultaneou sly, the entire floor where
the secretary worked was disinfected for two days, and from that time toilets were
scrubbed many times daily. A BASF spokesman expressed his satisfaction: "The crisis
management has worked."
Lufthansa, in contrast, was completely caught off-guard by the crisis. The German
airline lost more than € 300 million in the first quarter of 2003 after many airplanes
were ground ed. And then the group announced that another 15 planes had to be
quarantined bringing the total number of grounded planes to 70. "First the 11
September [with the terrorist attacks in New York], then the war in Iraq and now
SARS-it's the worst crisis in decades," said German newspaper Die Zeit about the
Lufthansa situation. 5
In the hysteria, everyone completely overlooked the fact that people constantly
contract pulmonary infections and die. Yet the World Health Organization alleges
that there were just less than 800 "probable SARS fatalities," in the first nine months
after the outbreak of the "epidemic" began at the end of 2002-in China, it is worth
noting, with its 1.3 billion people, 6 as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan.7 These few
hundred mortalities are so few that they only make up a fraction of the pneumonia
cases constantly at hand.
176 SARS: Hysteria on the Heels of AIDS and BSE
SARS "counts among the very rare diseases," as the Deutsches Arzteblatt
emphasized in April 2003.8 And three years later, in July


 the name “Engine 2”; Rick Kent, for his
constant help with computers, graduation certificates, and photos, and for
loving Petey so much; Elizabeth Kreutz, for her photographic expertise;
Nathan Turner and John Collis, for exercise expertise; Adam Reiser, for his
core workout; Trent Turner, for being medical director for the pilot studies;
Chad Darbyshire and Josh Miller, for lighting a fire under my butt to do the
pilot study; Seabrook Jones for his enthusiasm; Jared Johnson and Donnie
O’Neal, for their creative genius with Engine2.or g; Lydia Heckendorf, for
her help with the Web site and the recipe section; Lance Armstrong, for hisdesire to improve himself in whatever he sinks his teeth into; Anne
Stevenson and Tim Terway for being photogenic and brilliant with graphic
art design; Brad Kearns, for being a kindred spirit; Bill Stapleton, for
coming through and jumping aboard; Dr. Paul Parrish for being so open-
minded; Kent Mayes for believing; Charlotte Herzele for her knowledge;
Dan, Jackie, and R yan Murray, for keeping the faith, in Windsor, Canada;
Darrell Williams for his generosity; the Butler brothers, Adam and Marty,
for giving me a place I can call home; Martin Brauns for jumping in feet
first; L yndon Sanders for always putting up a good fight; Ricky Wang for
his quiet strength; and Jimmy Bynum for being there; the Brinker family for
their boldness; Dez and Jen Kidd from Port A; and all the guys from
Tuesday night choir practice: Rick, John, Adam R., Adam G., Tim, and
Chris.
I am so grateful to the crew at Inkwell Management, especially Elisa
Petrini and the amazing Richard Pine. Thank you, Richard, for believing in
me, taking on the challenge to help make America healthier, and for giving
me this wonderful opportunity of a lifetime. Upward and onward! Likewise,
I am indebted to all the wonderful folks at Grand Central Publishing,
including Jamie Raab, Les Pockell, Matthew Ballast, and my superb and
supportive editor, Diana Baroni.
Next, a Texas-sized E2 thank-you to Bridget Weiss, for rolling up her
sleeves and helping with the proposal, the Web site, and the recipes. You
were there for me 1 10 percent, and the book wouldn’ t be the same without
you.
I want to thank my brothers, Ted and Zeb; my sister, Jane; my brother -
in-law, Brian Hart; my sister -in-law, Anne Bingham; and my two aunts,
Susan L yne and Susan Crile, for their excitement and assistance with
anything and everything I’ve done in life. And of course, my parents, Ann
and Essy, for their constant inspiration and love. They are my two greatest
role models and I can never get enough of them.
Thank you to the whole Kolasinski clan: Jerry, Carol, John and Basia,
and Julie and Pat.
I also want to thank the brave and courageous giants in this field who
have paved the way and given me the courage to stand up and be heard: my
father, T. Colin Campbell, Dean Ornish, Neal Barnard, John McDougall,
Joel Fuhrman, and Jef f Novick.Without my wife and love, Jill Kolasinski, I don’ t know how I could
have managed this project. Thank you, Jill, for your unwavering love and
support. And a huge hug and a kiss to my son, Kole, for coming into our
lives at the perfect time.
Finally, I want to thank my co-writer, advisor, and friend, Gene Stone. In
your brilliant little ways you knew how to bring out the best in me. You are
indeed a holy ghost. Boy, did we have fun creating this baby! I will always
treasure the time we spent working on the book, and the professional and
personal relationship we were able to for ge.
OceanofPDF.com<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>(1) We are all One. All things are One Thing. There is only One Thing, and all
things are part of the One Thing There Is. This means that you are Divine. You
are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. You are the
unique combinatio n of all three, which comprises the Totality Of You.  You are
an individuation of Divinity; an expression of God on Earth.
(2) There’s enough. It is not necessary to compete for, much less fight over, your
resources. All you have to do is share.
(3) There’s  nothing you have to do. There is much you  will do, but nothing you
are required  to do. God wants nothing, needs nothing, demands nothing,
commands nothing.
(4) God talks to everyone, all the time. The question is not: To whom does God
talk? The question i s: Who listens?
(5) There are Three Basic Principles of Life:  Functionality, Adaptability,  and
Sustainability.
(6) There is no such thing as Right and Wrong, there is only What Works and
What Does Not Work, given what it is you are trying to do.
(7) In the  spiritual sense, there are no victims and no villains in the world,
although in the human sense it appears that there surely are. Yet because you are
Divine, nothing can happen against your will.
(8) No one does anything inappropriate, given their model o f the world.
(9) There is no such place as hell, and eternal damnation does not exist.
(10) Death does not exist. What you call “death” is merely a process of Re -
Identification.
(11) There is no such thing as Space and Time, there is only Here and Now.
(12) Love is all there is.
(13) You are the creator of your own reality, using the Three Tools of
Creation: Thought, Word,  and Action.
(14) Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you
touch, and how you touch it.
(15) The purpose  of your life is to recreate yourself anew in the next grandest
version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are.
(16) The moment you declare anything, everything unlike it will come into the
space. This is The Law of Opposites, producing a C ontextual Field within which
that which you wish to express may be experienced.
(17) There is no such thing as Absolute Truth. All truth is subjective. Within this
framework there are five levels of truth telling:  Tell your truth to yourself about yourself; Tell your truth to yourself about another; Tell your truth about yourself to
another; Tell your truth about another to another; Tell your truth to everyone about
everything.
(18) The human race lives within a pre cise set of illusions. The Ten Illusions of
Humans are:  Need Exists, Failure Exists, Disunity Exists, Insufficiency Exists,
Requirement Exists, Judgment Exists, Condemnation Exists, Conditionality Exists,
Superiority Exists, Ignorance Exists.  These illusio ns are meant to serve humanity, but
it must learn how to use them.
(19) The Three Core Concepts of Holistic Living are  Honesty, Awareness,  and
Responsibility.  Live according to these precepts and self -anger will disappear from
your life.
(20) Life function s within a Be -Do-Have paradigm. Most people have this
backward,imagining that first one must “have” things in order to “do” things,
thus to “be” what they wish to be. Reversing this process is the fastest way to
experience mastery in living.
(21) There are  Three Levels of Awareness:  Hope, Faith,  and Knowing.  Spiritual
mastery is about living from the third level.
(22) There are Five Fallacies about God that create crisis, violence, killing and
war.  First, the idea that God needs something. Second, the idea that God can fail to
get what He needs. Third, the idea that God has separated you from Him because you
have not given Him what He needs. Fourth, the idea that God still needs what He
needs so badly that God now requires you, from your separated position, to give it to
Him. Fifth, the idea that God will destroy you if you do not meet His requirements.
(23) There are also Five Fallacies About Life that likewise create crisis, violence,
killing and war.  First, the idea that human beings are separate from each  other.
Second, the idea that there is not enough of what human beings need to be happy.
Third, the idea that in order to get the stuff of which there is not enough, human
beings must compete with each other. Fourth, the idea that some human beings are
better than other human beings. Fifth, the idea that it is appropriate for human beings
to resolve severe differences created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.
(24) You think you are being terrorized by other people, but in truth you are
being  terrorized by your beliefs.  Your experience of yourself and your world will
shift dramatically if you adopt, collectively, the Five Steps to Peace:


 they arrive, because it takes a few weeks to rid yourself
of them once they are established. If you  want  immediate  action,
get some lemons, cut the yellow outer peel off and cover with
grain alcohol in a tightly closed jar. Let stand at least one hour.
Use 1 part of this concentrate with 9 parts water in a spray bottle.
Mix only as much as you will use because the diluted form loses
potency. Spray walls, floors, carpets wherever you see them. The
lemon solution even leaves a shine on your counters. Use both
vinegar and lemon approaches to rid yourself of ants.
To treat the whole house, pour vinegar  all around your
foundation, close to the wall, using one gallon for every five feet.
Expect to damage any foliage it touches. Reapply every six
months.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
542Flower and Foliage Spray
Food-grade hydrogen peroxide. See instructions on bottle.
Moth Balls
I found this recipe in an old recipe book. Mix the following
and scatter in trunks and bags containing furs and woolens: ½ lb.
each rosemary and mint, ¼ lb. each tansy and thyme, 2 tbs.
powdered cloves.
Carpet Cleaner
Whether you rent a machine or have a cleaning service, don’t
use the carpet shampoo  they want to sell, even if they “guarantee”
that it is all natural and safe. Instead add these to a bucket (about
four gallons) of water and use it as the cleaning solution:
Wash water Rinse water
1/3 cup borax ¼ cup grain alcohol
2 tsp. boric acid
¼ cup white distilled vinegar  or
4 tsp. citric acid
Borax does the cleaning; alcohol disinfects, boric acid  leaves
a pesticide  residue, and the vinegar  or citric acid  give luster. If
you are just making one pass on your carpet, use the borax,
alcohol, and boric acid. Remember to test everything you use on
an unnoticed piece of carpet first.RECIPES
543Health Improvement Recipes
Black Walnut Hull Tincture
This new recipe is four times as strong as the previous one,
so it is called Black Walnut Hull Tincture  Extra Strength.
Your largest enamel  or ceramic (not stainless steel, not aluminum )
cooking pot, preferably at least 10 quarts
Black walnuts, in the hull, each one still at least 50% green, enough to
fill the pot to the top
Grain alcohol, about 50% strength, enough to cover the walnuts
½ tsp. vitamin C
Plastic wrap or cellophane
Glass jars or bottles
The black walnut tree produces large green balls in fall. The
walnut is inside, but we will use the whole ball, uncracked, since
the active ingredient is in the green outer hull.
Rinse the walnuts carefully, put them in the pot, and cover
with the alcohol. Sprinkle on half the vitamin C. Seal with plas tic
wrap and cover. Let sit for three days. Pour into glass jars or
bottles, discarding walnuts, and divide the remaining vitamin C
amongst the jars. If the glass jar has a metal lid, first put plastic
wrap over the top before screwing on the lid. Potency is strong
for several years if unopened, even if it darkens.
You have just made Extra Strength  Black Walnut Hull
Tincture. It is stronger than the concentrate made with just a few
black walnuts in a quart jar (my earlier recipe), because there
are more walnuts per unit liquid. In addition, you will not dilute
it before use (although when you take it, it will usually be in
water).THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
544When preparing the walnuts, rinse only with cold tap water.
You may need to use a brush on areas with dirt. If you are not
going to use all of them in this batch, you may freeze them in a
resealable plastic bag. Simply refrigerating them does not keep
them from turning black and useless. The pot of soaking wal nuts
should not be refrigerated. Nor does the final tincture need any
refrigeration.
Exposure to air does cause the tincture to darken and lose
potency. To reduce air exposure, fill the pot as much as possi ble,
without touching the plastic wrap, while still keeping a  snug
fitting lid. Even more importantly, the glass jars or bottles you
use to store your tincture should have as little air space as
possible, without touching the plastic wrap on top. A large jar
should be divided into smaller ones when you are ready to use it.
The idea is not to have partial jars, with a lot of air space, sit ting
for longer than a month or so.
There are several ways to make a 50% grain alcohol solu-
tion. Some states have Everclear,TM 95% alcohol. Mix this half
and half with water. Other states have Everclear that is 76.5%
alcohol. Mix this three parts Everclear to one part water. Yet
another method is to buy vodka that is 100 proof. This  is already
50% alcohol.
Remember, never use any kind of purchased  water to make
tincture.
Black Walnut Hull Tincture  (Regular Strength)
This is the potency I used originally. It is included here in
case you prefer it or wish to treat a pet. The Extra Strength rec ipe
is four times as potent as the original recipe, so it must be diluted
in quarters. (Similarly, if you have a lot of the Regular Strength
left and want to use it in place of Extra Strength, sim ply take four
times as much.)RECIPES
545Black Walnut Hull Tincture  Extra Strength
Grain Alcohol, about 10%
Mix one part extra strength tincture with three parts of the
10% alcohol. Store in glass containers same as described above.
There are several ways to make a 10% grain alcohol solu-
tion. Some states have Everclear,TM 95% alcohol. Mix this one
part Everclear to nine parts water. Other states have Everclear
that is 76.5% alcohol. Mix this one part Everclear to seven parts
water. Yet another method is to buy vodka that is 100 proof
(50% alcohol) and mix one part vodka with four parts water.
Black Walnut Hull Extract (Water Based)
Because you do not know how commercially available ex-
tracts were made, and may not be able to test for solvent pollu-
tion, it is wisest to make it yourself!
This recipe is intended for alcoholic persons : cover the
green balls in the 10 quart (non-metal) pot with cold tap water.
Heat to boiling, covered. Turn off heat. When cool, add vitamin
C, cover with plastic wrap, and the lid. Let stand for 1 day. It
will be darker than the tincture. Do not dilute. Pour into freezable
containers. Refrigerate what you will use in two days and freeze
the rest. Add vitamin C after thawing or during re frigeration (¼
tsp. per quart).
For use:  in programs calling for Extra Strength  Black Wal nut
Hull Tincture use four times  as much of this water based recipe
(8 tsp. instead of 2 tsp. Extra Strength).
Important Note:  do not use bottled or purchased water to
make this tincture or you could pollute it with benzene!THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
546Quassia recipe
Add 1/8 cup quassia  chips to 3 cups water. Simmer 20-30
minutes. Pour off 1/8 cup now and drink it fresh. Refrigerate
remainder. Drink 1/8 cup 4 times/day, until a total of ½ cup of
chips is consumed. Flavor with spices.
Emmenagogue (Menstrual Period Inducer)
Here are four herbs that can each bring on your period. They
can be started anytime but the most-effective time is before your
next calculated period time (count days as if you never missed a
period).
1 oz sassafras  bark
1 oz rue (cut)
1 oz marjoram herb
1 oz blue cohosh root
4½ cups boiling water
Add the herbs to the boiling water and turn down to simmer,
covered, for 20 minutes. Do not boil. Strain and refrigerate in
sterile glass jar. Pour one cup for yourself in the morning. Let
warm to room temperature, and sip between meals, making it last
until supper.
Bowel Program
Bacteria are always at the root of bowel  problems, such as
pain, bloating  and gassiness. They can not be killed by zapping,
because the high frequency current does not penetrate the bowel
contents.
Although most bowel  bacteria are beneficial, the ones that
are not, like Salmonellas  and Shigellas, are extremely detri-
mental because they have the ability to invade the rest of your
body and colonize a trauma site or weakened organ. These sameRECIPES
547bacteria colonize a cancer tumor  and delay healing after the
malignancy is stopped.
Another reason bowel  bacteria are so hard to eradicate is
that we are constantly reinfecting ourselves by keeping a reser-
voir on our hands and under our fing


 Self.
Passion isn’t personal, even though another person triggers it; passion is
universal. When  Rumi declares that “all the particles of the world are in
love and looking for lovers,” he has conferred passion even on the force of
gravity. At the same time he gives back to spirit one of its most important
qualities—power.Without power spirit might be loving and inspiring, but it would n’t make
a difference in the way things  turn out; it would be an abstraction far
removed from daily events. Of course that is exactly how many people
regard spirit, but the soul is endowed with its own unique kind of power,
which in Sanskrit is called Shakti. In Indian cosmology Shakti is the female
principle of creation, the wife of Shiva, who stands as the male principle.
Shiva does not act in the world; he is unmanifest and invisible. Shakti is the
visible creation; she is like the mother tending her child, aware of every
movement, however minute, in the manifest universe. In our sexual love we
reenact the union of these two forces, and whenever we feel loved, we are
actually feeling the attention of the cosmic mother, consort, seductress, and
lover.
Shakti is portrayed in all these  forms and countless more. The tender
cosmic mother is Shakti, but so is the fanged destroyer Kali with her
necklace of skulls. Many of Shakti’ s forms are sexual—it is Shiva’ s passion
for Shakti that inspires her to perform her cosmic dance of creation to
delight him. The whole universe is thus a gesture of erotic love, and every
dancing molecule is moving in longing for an unseen lover. Rumi echoes
this notion when he says,
There is someone who looks after us
From behind the curtain.
In truth, we are not here.
This is our shadow.
The divine love of Shiva and Shakti is the only thing that is real; all else is
appearance—the costume of the dancer rather than the dancer herself.
But what is Shakti outside mythology? Shakti has no simple equivalent in
English—she includes the infinite energy of the physical universe as well as
the spiritual energy our moder n physics doesn’ t yet recognize. Galaxies
spin through space propelled by Shakti, but she also carries silent prayers to
God’ s ear. Shakti flows through  creation as the evolutionary impulse that
keeps order from  flying apart into chaos, but her existence is so intimate
that no instrument yet devised can detect it.
When the Bible  speaks of “the light” emanating from God to create the
world, Shakti is being described, though stripped of her gender. But Shaktididn’ t appear only at the moment of inception. Creation contin ues as long
as the universe exists; it is the spirit’ s unending expression of love for life.
Shakti is cosmic passion, and whenever you feel passion for anything you ar e expr essing Shakti
through yourself.
Although most of us consider ourselves fortunate if we can still feel
passion about anything as we grow older, feeling passion for your work or
politics or even sex is not the same as having a passion for life. It is not just
that life is bigge r than work, politics, or sex. Shakti is life itself; it is present
in every rhythmic pulse of existence. A passion for life implies that you are
passion; it is in your very being. Therefore the most natural way to be is
passionate; the slow ebbing of passion is unnatural.
If you mourn the fading of passion, realize that nothing endures on the
surface of life, where change is the only constant. Things come and go,
people come and go, and althou gh they once stoked the fires of enthusiasm,
eventually the temperature cools. This is particularly true of sexual desire.
Erotic attraction is not a permanent state but an opening that allows us
temporarily to step outside our ego boundaries and enter into the love affair
of Shiva and Shakti. What this means is that sexuality is an opportunity to
be in unity, outside the limitations of the ego-dominated self. The
opportunity must be taken when offered or else your Shakti— the energy
released in sex—will be wasted.
In spiritual terms, Shakti flows in any situation, not just sex, that arouses
interest, excitem ent, and attraction. The greatest waste is to expend passion
on needs and drives that are selfish and without spirit. Among these wastes
would be material accumulation, greed, love of money and power for their
own sake, lovel ess sexual activity, and obsession. Shakti is the raw ore of
life, waiting to be refined and shaped. Insights about passion, therefore, all
have to do with sustaining Shakti in yourself and transmuting  it in your
relationship to love and union:
Passion is the ener gy that love cr eates with no object other than itself.
The ener gy born of love is cr eative—it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you
are, look ar ound at what you have cr eated.
The sour ce of passion is within yourself. When passion wanes it must be r ekindled at its sour ce.PASSION FROM THE  ASHES
“What do you expect me to do? I put myself on the line every day for
fifteen years, and now I’m an old coffee cup? It’s criminal. I’d sue them all
if I had the guts.” Jarret slumped in his chair, his outburst spent. I was
talking with him alone while his wife, Gail, waited outside. For half an hour
our talk had been pointless. Jarret’ s current situation—being fired after a
long time with a company he’d helped to found—had made him depressed
and listless. He had barely aroused himself above feeble complaining until
this sudden outburst—it almost came as a relief.
“I don’t expect you to do anything,” I said. “You have money; you can
get along. What’ s next?”
Jarret sighed and looked away. Whatever was next, he didn’ t have the
energy for it. “Gail wants to move to Florida, but I’d really feel used up
down there.” I knew this couple from my former medical practice, and Gail
had more or less forced her husband to see me on the pretext that his
depression might have some physical cause. In truth she wanted someone
who might productively listen to Jarret’ s endless resentment without being
driven as crazy by it as she was.
“Gail doesn’t seem like the type who wants to park you in a retirement
community,” I said. “Not at fifty-three. Perhaps Florida repre sents a new
start to her.”
Jarret shrugged. “We used to do stuff with boats down there. We were
just kids.” I asked what kind of stuff with boats. “Racing. We both grew up
around the water, and actually Gail first took an interest in me when I was
crewing on a friend’ s sloop. It’ s ancient history.”
It didn’ t seem like that to me. “Do you mind if I call Gail in?” I asked.
Jarret shrugged, preoccupied with his grievances and annoyed by my
refusal to discuss them any further.
When Gail came back in, she looked worried but not drained or in
despair—whatever hope lay in the situation, she was it.
“First off, there’ s nothing physically wrong with your husband,” I said,
much to her relief. “And there’ s nothing wrong psychologically either.”
Both of them looked surprised, and Jarret protested, “If you think there’ s
nothing wrong with me, try sitting where I am.”“I’d like to,” I said. “Not many people get to stand at a crossroa ds; it’s an
incredible oppor tunity. The trouble is that you are framing it in your mind
as a loss—the loss of your reaso n for living. Was your old job your reason
for living?”
“That company wouldn’ t exist without me,” Jarret replied, evading the
question.
“That describes why you put your heart and soul into it fifteen years
ago,” I said. “But how did you feel about it lately?”
“He was wasting his time,” Gail interjected. Jarret glared at her. Her
comment came as no surprise. She had already informed me that what Jarret
was good at—bringing innovative ideas into production— no longer
counted for much at the computer company he’d helped to build. The
company had entered a phase of consolidation in which management skills
were far more important than innovation; Jarret had become less than
useful, a fact he bitterly resented.
“Your situation has changed, but you don’t want to accept the emotions
that accompany  change,” I pointed out. “I’m not telling you to pretend
you’re not angry, and although it’s harder to admit I’m sure you’re also
hurt. Y ou must feel betrayed by those who should be most grateful to you.”
“Damn right,” Jarret grumbled.
“But by framing  this as a negative situation,” I said, “you’ve missed the
beauty in change, which is that it renews passion. That’ s really what you
need.” I asked Jarret to imagine what he’d like to do if he


?” I asked in puzzlement.
“Believe it or not, I think I do.” He laughed and spread his hands
in the air to ward o invisible objections. “Let me just tell you what
has happened, and you judge.”
“All right,” I said. I’ve known Sidney for ve years, as a friend
and occasional patient. If he had found his soul, it would be worth
hearing about.  Sidney is forty-seven and looks at the world with the
most alert gaze I have ever met. He is a uent and diverse writer
and sometime professor who takes his stance against any kind of
orthodox dogma. His words, which pour out like Niagara, are
always memorable. Now here we were, seated in another café,
taking shelter from the rain one gray Saturday in Cambridge.
“A few month s ago,” Sidney said, “it became quite clear to me
that my normal mind was breaking apart.”
“You had a psychotic episode?” I asked, startled.
“Let us say that I brushed up against a state of mind that I would
have unhesitatingly labeled as disturbed in someone else,” he
replied. “But again, I leave the judgments to you. Early last winter I
started noticing some strang e ‘coincidences’ in my life. One day it
was snowing when I had to walk to the grocery store. As I stepped
outside my apartment, a patch of sunlight appeared at my feet, and I
couldn’t help but notice as I went down the street that it moved
with me.
“I took a left turn at the end of the block; so did the patch of
sunlight, which  measured perhaps ten feet across. I stopped at the
trac light and waited for it to change—and when I crossed the
street, so did the light! It accompanied my steps to the very door of
the grocery, and if this was not strange enough, when I came out
fteen minute s later, it reappeared and followed me home again.
What was I to think?”
Before I could respond, he rushed on. “No, wait. The next day I
went downtown to buy a portable typewriter, only to nd that the
price had gone up by twenty dollars since I had called in the
morning. I objected to the clerk and the store manager, but to noavail. Feeling intensely irrita ted, I bought the typewriter anyway, so
as not to waste the trip, and when I stepped outside the door, do
you know what was there?”
“A patch of sunlight,” I ventured.
“A twenty-dollar bill, right at my feet!” Sidney proclaimed,
ignoring me. “Insignicant as these incidents may sound, I began to
feel increasingly funny about them.”
“Funny?”
“Yes—there was a certain tone to these incidents that I would
have to call playful, as if I was being shown a particularly amusing
trick by a clever child—no, by an intelligence I could n’t see or
contact. But let me go on. A week later I was riding alone in the car.
It was after dark, and I was in the country, coming back from a
house I had never visited before. One winding rural road led to
another, and after half an hour I admitted to myself that I was
hopelessly lost.
“The few houses I passed were all dark and I began to feel
anxious, when all at once my awareness was no longer inside my
head—it reach ed out in front of me, about the length of the car’s
headlights. Just as I noticed this phenomenon, a further expansion
took place, and my awarene ss now pooled out in all directions. It
was a very delicate feeling. How can I possibly describe it? I was
simply everywhere, and without thinking about it, I gave up driving
my car. I still held the wheel and pushed the pedals, but the feeling
of conscious eort was gone. I became this pool of awareness
gliding through the night, not caring where I was bound.
“I arrived at crossroads and turned this way or that, apparently at
random, yet in ten minutes I came out onto the highway at precisely
the turno that led back home.”
“Would you call that an experience of your soul?” I asked
quizzically.
“If the soul is our portion of an invisible world, then perhaps I
was projecting myself into the territory of the soul. My invisible
extension was alive, and it was undoubtedly me. Everything felt
vibrant in its presence—the car, the land, the sky. A scrap of verse
comes to mind—where’s it from? ‘The stars are wide and alive, theyseem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very
near.’ ”
“How do you feel now?”
“Not like that anymore. There’s been a change, a ripening. I
continue to be intensely conscious all the time, and as the days go
by, there is a sporadic ecstasy that comes over me. In those
moments, the quality of my life becomes sacred. Pardon me for
sounding so awkward; I am new at speaking like this.”
“I’m happy for you,” I said, and added, “You still seem like
yourself, if that is a worry. You’ve always known a lot about
yourself, and I’m not surprised that you are getting to know even
more.”
He gave me a grateful look. “I want to tell you about a very
unusual occurrence. Are you bothered by the idea of miracles?”
“I’m not sure. You implied something in that vein already, didn’t
you?”
“Yes, but you’ve looked into this area yourself?”
“I don’t  seek it out, but stories seem to come my way. I’ve met
people who tell me in all condence that they used to y as
children. They oated down the staircase when no one else was at
home and left their dolls on top of tall wardrobes, which mystied
their parents. Then one day they told Mommy their secret, only to
be assured that ying was impossible. After that, the ability
disappeared.
“Of course ying is a very extraordinary claim,” I said, “but quite
a lot of people seem to irt with unusual powers. They can visualize
lost objects and go right to them if they really need to. They answer
other people’s thoughts befor e they are spoken. In a haphazard way,
most of us can foretell the future, although our correct predictions
remain mixed up with assorted projections from our unconscious
minds, wish fulllments and false premonitions. I wouldn’t feel
comfortable saying where ordinary life leaves o and miracles
begin.”
Sidney seemed relieved, but when he started speaking again, it
was with marked hesitancy. “My nights have been sleepless
recently, not from anxiety but because I seem to be—w hat shall Isay?—lled with light. The pressure of ecstasy makes me get up and
walk around restlessly; some times I put on my coat and go out into
the street. Would you believe it, I dance to the moon! I was in this
heightened state one night when I ran across a bedraggled woman
lying on the sidewalk near my home. She was asleep, rolled up in a
lthy blanket, and I heard her mumbling, ‘Mother, Mother, Mother.’
“It was very pitiable, and intuitively I had no doubt that like
many homeless people, she was mentally ill. Her voice sounded
desperately crazy; it carried  such an intensity of suering that I
couldn’t bear it, yet at the same time I felt more ecstatic than ever. I
leaned down and gently woke her up. She looked at me, frightened,
but she didn’t pull away. Without knowing why, I told her, ‘You
don’t have to suer anymore.’
“ ‘What?’ she said, completely bewildered.
“ ‘I’m here to help you,’ I said. ‘You’re not crazy anymore, are
you?’ She was taken aback, and yet there was a sane look in her
eyes that I am sure was new. She shook her head, as if to make sure
of what was inside, and didn’t say anything. ‘Tell me,’ I insisted, ‘do
you still feel crazy?’ In a quiet, normal voice she replied, ‘No.’
“ ‘Look, ’ I said, ‘I don’t know why this is happening, but let’s just
say you are very fortunate. You’re going to be all right from now
on.’ ” Sidney stopped.
“This really happened to you?” I said, amazed. He nodded. “But
can you really be sure she was cured? It does sound like a manic
episode on your part, you must know that.”
“Yes,” he admitted. “I cannot prove anything, and it wasn’t
possible at the time for me to analyze what was taking place
between the two of us. My heart started pounding, and I felt an
overpowering urge to run away. I heard the woman call after me,
‘What kind of person are you?’ But by that time I was halfway down
the block; ve minutes later I was back in bed, shivering. I’ve never
seen her again.”
Invisible PowersI have no proof that Sidney’s experiences are true, or even sane.
He still seems balanced to me: his personality has


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Aluminum (Aluminium)
Another mineral harmful to our health that is added to our drinking water, to precipitate impurities, is aluminum. This is not a so-called
heavy metal, but it causes health problems nevertheless. We may also ingest it with some brands of baking powder, and free-ﬂowing
salt, or from aluminum hydroxide antacids, but most commonly we absorb it through using aluminum cooking utensils. Most
dangerous to our health are acidic foods that are left in contact with aluminum surfaces. Aluminum easily dissolves in weak acids,
which are present in fruits, tomatoes, cucumber, rhubarb and beets. Even tap water or rainwater can be acidic. Heating water in an
aluminum pot was shown to add 1,600 mcg of aluminum per liter of water, which is 3,200% over the recommendation of the World
Health Organization with a limit of 50 mcg per liter.
In the body aluminum acts as a neurotoxin, causing brain disorders, though symptoms develop slowly. They may include senile
dementia (Alzheimer's disease), Parkinson's disease, reduced memory, slow learning, motor neuron disease, overactive parathyroid
glands and fatigue. Aluminum lowers the permeability of the blood-brain barrier to other harmful chemicals and increases the10/30/24, 2:38 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Chemicals & Other Foor Problems
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_Foods/Chemicals-and-Other-Food-Problems.html 3/7incidence of epileptic ﬁts. You can protect yourself from aluminum inges tion by using ﬁltered water, and glass, ceramic or enameled
cooking ware.
Mercury
Chronic mercury poisoning can originate from certain pesticides and fungicides, calomel laxatives, predatory ﬁsh, and especially
amalgam tooth ﬁllings. Such ﬁllings release mercury from broken off pieces that dissolve in the stomach and also from evaporation
that is caused by pressure on the ﬁllings during chewing. Old ﬁllings are thus much lighter than new ﬁllings, because they have lost
most of their mercury. Acidic foods increase the rate at which mercury ﬁllings disintegrate. The mercury loss from several amalgam
ﬁllings over 10 years has been calculated at about 560 mg, or 150 mcg per day, and almost all of this is absorbed and stored in body
fat, especially in the brain.
Symptoms of mercury poisoning may include: fatigue, lethargy, depression, irritability, shyness, loss of short-term memory, allergies,
respiratory infections, decreased immune response, increased saliva tion, gingivitis, loose teeth, mouth ulcers, nervous heart
problems, digestive problems, dermatitis, as well as changes in hearin g, vision, speech and writing. Most prominent are nervous
system disorders with serious mental disturbances. Many symptoms are actually the same as in multiple sclerosis. The present
epidemic of autism has been linked  by some researchers to a high level of organic mercury compounds used as preservatives in
some vaccines.
Case reports for patients after removing all amalgam ﬁllings include cure of leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, re-gaining vision after
23 years of blindness, cure of moderate to severe headaches that had persisted for 50 years, cure of arthritis, and a reversal of
general malaise with fatigue and depression. Minimize amalgam-relate d health problems by refusing any new ﬁllings containing
mercury, and contemplate replacing any old amalgam ﬁllings, for this see a holistic dentist. For more details on dental health review
Dental Problems.
Mercury exposure from eating ﬁsh has greatly increased in recent decad es. Even health authorities acknowledge that there is now a
problem and advise avoiding large predatory ﬁsh, especially for pregnant women. Some studies show that on average more mercury
is accumulated from ﬁsh than from amalgam ﬁllings. The same health problems, previously outlined for mercury from teeth, also are
caused by mercury from ﬁsh. Only non-predatory ﬁsh or small predatory  ﬁsh are reasonably safe to eat on a regular basis. You may
check the safety of commonly used ﬁsh species at: http://www.ewg.org.
Cooking
Cooked food has been a hallmark of civilization. Cooking breaks down cellulose in vegetables and connective tissue in meat and thus
makes these foods easier to chew and more palatable. Bacteria are destroyed at the same time, making these foods safer to eat, but
only if eaten immediately after cooking. During storage, raw food remains much more resistant to microbial contamination than
cooked food.
The price we pay for this convenience is a loss of vitamins and minerals,  the destruction of enzymes and plant hormones, denaturing
of proteins, oxidation of lipids, loss of vitality or life-force, and formation of harmful chemicals at temperatures above the boiling point.
Vitamins are destroyed by the combined action of oxygen and heat; minerals react to heat in ways that make them less easily
absorbed; and both vitamins and minerals are lost if cooking water is discarded.
When food is heated above 800-900 C (1800 F), protein becomes denatu red or unbiological; it changes its internal structure, the way
it is folded, and the immune system reacts as if it is attacked by foreign invaders. The digestive system is ﬂooded with white blood
cells after eating this food. This is called digestive leukocytosis. The white blood cells or leukocytes try to prevent food toxins from
reaching the bloodstream. The higher the food is heated or the more reﬁned it is, the stronger is the resulting leukocytosis. This
defense reaction against toxic food does not take place after eating raw food. Leukocytosis is a continued strain on our immune
system and is an aggravating factor in leukemia and immune deﬁciency. Animals and humans evolved on raw food only; cooked food
is a recent invention in evolutionary terms.
When food is heated above the boiling point, chemical reactions take place that create toxic chemicals in the food. For a long time it
has been known that carcinogenic substances are produced in highly heated meat, but the more recent discovery of similar
chemicals in heated cereal or grain products has come as a shock to the food industry. When foods are heated to above the boiling
point, advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are formed, some of these are known as acrylamides. These toxic products result
from a reaction of carbohydrates with proteins. They are produced at a slow rate at low temperatures, but in high amounts when food
is highly heated as in frying and baking. Acrylamides are known to be cancer-causing in animals and to cause DNA damage with
gene mutations.
Another scientiﬁc ﬁnding is that acrylamides are pro-inﬂammatory, the more of these chemicals are in the diet, the more inﬂammation
they cause. Almost all diseases are associated with inﬂammations, including arthritis, cancer, diabetes and heart disease. The more
inﬂammation the worse is the disease and associated pain. This may be a main reason why most diseases greatly improve, and
chronic pain tends to disappear on raw diets.
AGEs are yellow-brown, like another group of chemicals related to heat and oxidation, the lipofuscins, which are composed of
oxidized fats and proteins. Together, these chemicals accumulate as waste material in nerve and skin cells and impede their
functions. Sometimes they can be seen as “age spots” or “liver spots”.
Equally damaging is the total destruc tion of all the enzymes in cooked food. Raw food contains a complement of enzymes speciﬁcally
designed to digest it. Starchy foods contain large amounts of the starch-digesting enzyme amylase; fatty and oily foods are provided
with the fat-digesting enzyme lipase, while protein foods contain the protein-digesting enzyme cathepsin. According to the food
composition there may be mixtures of these and other enzymes.10/30/24, 2:38 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Chemicals & Other Foor Problems
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_Foods/Chemicals-and-Other-Food-Problems.html 4/7If food enzymes are destroyed, we must produce considerably more digestive enzymes, and our overall enzyme capacity declines
much more rapidly with advancing years than it would on raw food. Thus we age much sooner and develop degenerative diseases
that may otherwise be avoided. Food  enzymes and digestive enzymes not only break down and absorb food, but also keep our inside
free of inappropriate accumulations of fats and proteins, and avoid or reverse atherosclerosis and cancer. High-dose supplements of
protein-digesting enzymes are frequently used in natural cancer therapy to break down tumors.
Not only animal experiments show the profuse development of degenerative diseases of cooked foods, and the good health and
longer life that result when on raw diets. There are numerous reports of human cures from all kinds of degenerative diseases -
including advanced cancer - on raw diets of organically grown food. My own successes of healing patients in advanced and difﬁcult
conditions have often been due to raw-food diets.
Modern processed foods generally combine the negative health effects of cooked, reﬁned and chemicalized food. Tinned food, for
instance, causes even more leukocytosis than normal cooked food, indicating that it is more toxic. Equally harmful is


as much pleasure as possible out of life while trying to avoid suffering. Others, like various Christian saints and yogi, have
deliberately self-inﬂicted suf fering and denied themselves pleasures as part of their philosophy and as a path to their God.
To have a spiritual philosophy means  to see ourselves as part of a higher purpose, of a universal blueprint, and we consciously try to
cooperate with its unfolding and manifestation. A good spiritual philosophy needs to give us guidance and support on the spiritual
path and in our daily interactions and relationships.
In the same way that we can deliberately choose to believe in and follow  a certain religion or political party, we can also deliberately
adopt a spiritual philosophy that exactly suits our purpose. Normally, this adopted philosophy can be in harmony with our present
religion or political views. Just look for the highest ideals and replace any negative aspects with positive beliefs.
The center point of any philosophy of life is the question of meaning or purpose. If we see no speciﬁc purpose in life and especially in
our own life, then it is quite natural to live for the sake of sense and ego gratiﬁcation, but we also may easily become depressed by
the apparent lack of deeper meaning of it all. In a spiritual philosophy we believe in a higher purpose. We may not know the exact
nature of this purpose and it may not even matter. We may say we just want to manifest our own blueprint, or fulﬁll the purpose  for
which we incarnated, or just trying to do God's will, or becoming one with God. It may all be the same anyway.
By now you may be rather apprehensive. Basically all you want is to be healthy, have a good life, some fun and generally feel fulﬁlled
and satisﬁed. You do not want to become a mystic or a saint to achieve this. Luckily, you do not need to. I just painted the big picture
to show in which direction we generally have to move. How fast you want to move is entirely up to you.
The Middle Path
The important part is to move in the right direction, however slowly. Suffering comes from moving in the wrong direction, no matter
how far advanced we are spiritually. The saint will suffer if he moves in the wrong direction, and the sinner will feel good if he moves
in the right direction. That is what it is all about, the right direction.
Indeed, this is a middle path between pleasure-seeking and intentional or unintentional self-inﬂicted suffering. In this it is like the path
of the Buddha. For a long time, the Buddha tried to reach enlightenment through extreme asceticism. He fasted until where he had
been sitting he left a mark like the footprint of a camel. Finally, he realized that he was on the wrong path, that he needed his body as
a partner and, therefore, had to fulﬁll its legitimate biological needs, he had to be ﬁrm but kind to it. He called this the middle path,
and many seekers after him found it to be the right path for them.
In the same way, our spiritual philosophy should help us to feel good in body as well as in mind and spirit. Suffering is only for the
ego. If instead we identify more and more with the spirit or our higher self, then life will be correspondingly easier and more fun - at
least that is what we start out believing and wonder  whether it will turn out to be true.
Our basic premise is that we attract or become what we believe in. Assu ming that the universe contains all possibilities, all shades of
good and bad, right and wrong, desirable and undesirable, it is so much more attractive to believe in a benevolent universe than in a
vindictive one, in a God of love rather than a God to fear. This spiritual philosophy of the middle path says that we can choose and
have what we want, we just must ﬁrmly believe in what we want and act accordingly.
However, there is a catch. We must be careful what we choose and from which level of our consciousness we choose. If we let our
ego choose, we generally choose wrong. This means we choose someth ing selﬁsh for which we have to pay later. If the ego chooses
pleasure now, we will suf fer later to pay for it.
If, on the other hand, we let ourselve s be guided by our highest ideals and the inner voice of our higher guidance, then we will choose
a path that leads us to gradually increasing and lasting happiness, without having to pay for it with later suf fering.
The simplest and safest choice is that we want to fulﬁll the purpose for which we incarnated and just want to do the will of God. Of
course, we do not really know our purpose or the will of God; at least not consciously with our mind. The good thing is that we do not
need to know, we just can let ourselves be guided step by step, one step at a time, by listening to our spiritual guidance or by
following our highest ideals. This is called 'living by faith' or 'going with the ﬂow'.
Awakening the Inner Christ10/30/24, 3:06 PM Health-Science-Spirit - The Spiritual Dimension
https://health-science-spirit.com/Spirituality/The-Spiritual-Dimension.html 3/7Gradually, this living by faith will allow an inner seed of the divine to awaken and grow within us. Like a hologram, this seed is a
miniature reﬂection of God and the universe. Fully developed, this seed  will become the risen Christ. We will then live in the Christ
and the Christ within us. This is the promise of those who know.
Expressed somewhat differently, we may say that we, as a living soul, now have become the perfect vehicle for our High Self or
Christ Self. The Christ Self can then begin to manifest the will of the God Self, the 'Father'. Like Jesus, who became the Christ, we
can then say: "I and the Father are one."
We may actually see the life of Jesu s as a symbolic enactment of the inner journey that we are all sooner or later called to perform.
The cruciﬁxion symbolizes the death of our ego, and the resurrection, the birth and ascendancy of the inner Christ. By becoming the
Christ we have ﬁnally redeemed our original sin - our separation from God.
I also have a different interpretation to religious doctrines that regard the human aspect of Jesus as the Son of God. Instead I regard
the Christ who arose in Jesus as 'the only Son of God'. I understand that Jesus generally referred to himself as 'the Son of Man'
rather than 'the Son of God'.
We awaken and nourish the Christ within by building a spiritual body composed of a higher emotional body and a higher mental body.
This we do in a similar way to building a biological body from the food we eat, by building an emotional body from our feelings and
emotions or a mental body by constructing belief systems with thoughts and ideas.
The nutrients we need for our spiritual body are spiritual feelings and spiritual thinking. With spiritual feelings, such as devotion,
unselﬁsh love, compassion, inner peace and divine bliss we build a higher emotional body. This combines with a higher mental body
that we build through spiritual thinking with high ideals, pure motives, a spiritual philosophy, discernment and spiritual knowledge.
This spiritual body or light body allows our High Self or Christ Self to fuse more and more with the soul so that the soul eventually
becomes an expression of the Christ. This is the same principle that previously caused the personality to become an expression of
the soul.
Stated in a different way, we may also regard the Christ Self as the Inner Master. With this fusion of soul and Christ Self, the
personality of the soul can now be expressed as a spiritual master. However, this expression is still limited by being channeled
through a biological brain. After discarding the biological body, the Christ consciousness is then able to express itself much more
freely as an Ascended Master.
If we look much further into the future, then we may assume that the Christ Self will eventually merge with the God Self. With this, the
'I AM' that originally started out building itself a personality to become a living soul and eventually an Ascended Master, will now have
returned to its source and become a God.
In this process we see the two opposing forces that keep the Wheel of Life turning. One is the individualizing tendency of the I AM, its
ego, which prompts it to build a body and acquire its separate identity, while the other is the unifying tendency or the Christ principle,
which compels it to return to its source.
THE SPIRITUAL  MOUNT AIN
You may sometimes wonder how all the different spiritual and religious beliefs, often contradicting each other, can possibly lead to the
same goal. Surely, only one can be true. But then consider the following parable.
Imagine that different points of the compass represent different beliefs. There is a high mountain with a brightly shining light on top,
marking the goal for countless climbers on all sides of the mountain. Those who are on opposite sides of the mountain actually walk
and climb in opposite directions of the compass needle and yet they all progress towards the same light.
Below the climbers there are an even greater number of seekers who do not see the light itself, but believe in its existence because
of what some of the temporarily returned climbers have told them. Groups of seekers follow some of the more experienced climbers
back up the mountain. These are those who seriously follow a particular religion or spiritual leader.
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S e c o n d s  ( o r  a n  U n h e a l t h y  o r  O l d e r
P e r s o n )
•  Measure your BOL T score each morning after waking.
•   Breathe through the nose both day and night. T o ensure nasal
breathing at night, it will be necessary to wear paper tape
across your lips during sleep.
•   Practice the Breathing Recovery Exercise  th rough out the day,
ideally spending  10 minutes 6 times per day doing small breath
holds of between 2 and 5 seconds.
•   Another option to help recover breathing  is to exhale through
your nose, pinch your nose wit h your fingers, and walk while
holding the breath for 5 to 10 paces. Rest for 1 minute and
repeat 10 times.
•   Engage in 10 to 15 minutes of slow walking each day with the
mouth c losed. If you need to breathe through your mouth, you
must stop walking to recover your breath.
•  When your BOL T score increases to 15 seconds, you will find it
a lo t easier to bring relaxation to your body and to Breathe
Light to Breathe Right. It is m ore beneficial to practice this
exercise than Breathing Recovery once your BOL T score hasreached 15 seconds. The minimum time re quired for an
individual for such a low BOL T  score is to practice Breathing
Light to Breathe Right for 1 hour per day (6 sets of 10 minutes
each).
•   As your BOL T score increases, it will become a lot easier to
engage in physical exercise. Y our expected progress is to
increase your BOL T score to 25 seconds within 6 to 8 weeks.
•  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress.
Sixty-five-year -old Michael enjoys slow walking. He has chronic
asthma and suf fers from symptoms such as coughing, breathlessness, andwheezing. Mich ael’ s BOL T is 7  seconds. This program emphasizes quality
over quantity.
At the beginning, given Michael’ s low BOL T score, he will find it
dif ficult to Breathe Light to B reathe Right because the air h unger may
destabilize his breathing. There fore, a better initial option for him is to
concentrate on breathing only th rough the nose both during the  day and at
night, and to practice many small breath holds (Breathing Recovery
Exercise) throughout the day. It will also be very helpful for Michael to
relax his  body and encourage hi s breathing to soften, as long as doing so is
not stressful and does not destabilize his breathing.
Gentle walking alone will be suf ficient for Michael to generate a
tolerable air shortage. He will n ot need to hold his breath during his walk
unless h e feels comfortable doing so. Sometimes, holding the breath during
a w alk is a good way to overcom e chest tightness and to help increase one’ s
BOL T s core. If Michael practic es breath holds during his slow walks, they
should be limited to no more than 10 paces. He should not hol d his breath
beyond the point at which he los es control of his breathing, as doing so will
disrupt his breathing and possibly cause asthma symptoms.
Practicing the exercise Breat he Light to Breathe Right is very
worthwhile and will be a lot ea sier for Michael to apply when his BOL T
score re aches 15 seconds. Michael’ s BOL T score will continue to increase
as l ong as he dedicates 10 minutes by 6 times daily to his reduced
breathing. This may sound like a  lot of hard work, but living wi th asthma is
extremely hard work in itself and will already be costing Michael a lot in
terms of reduced quality of life  and productivity. Reducing his breathing
throughout the day will be the b est investment in time that Mich ael has ever
made.P r o g r a m  f o r  B O L T  S c o r e  o f  1 0  t o  2 0
S e c o n d s
•  Measure your BOL T score each morning after waking.
•   B reathe through the nose at all times. W ear paper tape acro ss
your lips during sleep to ensure nasal breathing at night.
•   Regul arly obs erve your breathing throughout the day to ensu re
it stays calm and soft.
•   Swallow or ho ld the breath any time you feel a sigh coming. If
you miss a sigh, then gently exhale through your nose and hold
your breath for 5 to 10 seconds to compensate.
•   Practice the Breathe Light to Breathe Right  or Breathing
Recovery exercise  for 10 minutes, 3 times a day: once in the
morning, once during the afternoon, and once before bed.
•   Practice Breathe Light to Breathe Right—W alking  for between
30 and 60 minutes per day; yo u can slow jog if your BOL T
score is greater than 15 seconds.
•  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress.Jennifer works as a sales and marketing manager for a UK-based
clothing store. Her work can be demanding, resulting in long hours spent in
her car or in front of the computer. T ravel takes up a lar ge amount of her
time, bo th to and from the head  of fice and from store to store. Because of
her busy schedule, Jennifer has gotten out of the habit of regular physical
exercise. As she approaches her  thirty-fifth birthday, she has be come more
conscious of her health and fitness and has decided to embark on a new
exercise program.
Jennifer ’ s startin g BOL T score was 12 seconds, with no apparen t health
concerns. In the beginning, it w as important to avoid the comm on mistake
of overdoing it. In an ef fort to make up for years of not exercising, there is
often a temptation to plunge straight into intensive exercise, but performing
beyond your ability can lead t o increased breathlessness and feelings of
failure. This can sometimes b e enough to put you of f a ne w program
completely when you would have made much better progress by simply
taking e xercises at your own pace. The mantra for beginning any exercise
program should always be: slow and steady, increasing the intensity and
duration by no more than 10 percent each week.
I s tarted  Jennifer of f very gen tly, matching specific exercises to her
BOL T s core an d fitness level. T o gently condition her body to a greatertolerance of carbon dioxide, Jen nifer increased her daily walks t o a light jog
as so on as her BOL T score reached 20 seconds. During her first week of
jogging, she alternated between 2 minutes of walking and 2 minutes of
jogging. In the second and third weeks, she began jogging for 3 minutes
followed by walking for 1 minute. By the fourth week she had achieved her
long-awaited goal of jogging for a half hour straight, and more important
she was able to  do this comfo rtably with her mouth closed. All in all,
Jennifer ’ s com mitment to nasal breathing, gentle reduced breathing
exercises, and regular physical exercise achieved impressive benefits with
no r isk of injur y or feeling defeated from overtraining. By intelligently
adapting a new exercise progra m to her needs, Jennifer was able to enjoy
her newfound fitness in a way that fit easily around her work and routine.P r o g r a m  f o r  B O L T  S c o r e  o f  2 0  t o  3 0
S e c o n d s
•  Measure your BOL T score each morning after waking.
•   Breathe through  your nose  b oth day and at night, includ ing
wearing tape over the mouth during sleep.
•   Redu ce brea thing using the Breathe Light to Breathe Right
exercise for 10 minutes, 3 times  per day, once in the morning,
once in the afternoon, and last thing at night.
•   W arm up for 10 minutes by walking and performing a brea th
hold to achieve a medium to str ong air hunger every minute or
so to Simulate High-Altitude T raining.
•   Br eathe Light  to Breathe Righ t during a fast walk or jog for 30
to 6 0 minutes daily with a relaxed body, abdominal breathing,
and nasal breathing to create an air shortage.
•   Simul ate High -Altitude T rain ing during walking or jogging b y
practicing 8 to 10 breath holds.
•   Afte r physical exercise, p ractice the Breathing Recovery
Exercise.
•  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress.David is  twenty -three years old and a keen athlete. He trains fo ur times
per week and plays rugby for his hometown. His BOL T score is 20 seconds.
David h as been mouth breathing and sighing regularly for several years.
He snore s during