UNDERFEEDING • PART B: PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

“I donʼt envision 1,000-year-old people, but 150-year-old people?
That's a pretty modest increase over what we've got now.”
–Steven Austad,
University of Texas Health Science Center,
San Antonio

“A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
–Robert Browning

“It takes a long time to become young.”
–Pablo Picasso

Granted I am only 68, but I have become much younger over the past five to eight years and here is my personal story:

I have been in the healing arts since the late seventies and have worked devotedly and passionately to hone a diet that was magnificent in it's simplicity, a way of fueling my body that brought me joy and increased my Passion 100 fold.

All was prelude to an awakening begun in about 2005. I began the process of a "quantum leap". I was 63 in '05 and I weighed 156 pounds, the most I ever weighed in my life. Several years of considerable stress and major risk taking (I believe in risk) BUT I was not taking care of myself as well as I certainly could. This is a common, but unnecessary response to stress. The answer is to begin honing skills that become so deeply imbedded in you, that when the stress comes, "stuffing yourself" with the wrong substances (often they don't even qualify as food) is no longer a habitual option for you. Today, 5 years later, 2010, I weigh exactly 50 pounds less, 106.

This journey has been a gift, an amazing transformation for me. And it all happened very gradually yet very focused on the glorious intent of genuine radiant health. And then it just started taking on a life of it's own. There was no real work. I have long been approximately 80% raw, but what became different, was that I began UNDERFEEDING. I eat very very simply now, no fancy raw recipes. I NOW EAT 80% FOODS THAT LOOK THE SAME WHEN YOU EAT THEM AS WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THE GROUND. And, needless to say, VERY SMALL QUANTITIES. THAT'S THE BIG TICKET!

I never ever felt hungry. Especially since the benefits were so wondrous to experience. I have never felt better or looked better (comparatively speaking) in my life. But I look at my old driver's license, and I behold a different person. And a much more joyful and freely passionate person. It genuinely feels like. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Thank you Deepak Chopra and Gabriel Cousens.

So for me, I never want to give up the benefits. Too much of a sacrifice to eat junk that sits on the tongue for a moment. And then, you just want more. No thanks, I don't think so. I have always, since a teenager wanted to 'never have to think about food'. I wanted FOOD AS FUEL. And, now, at 68, it must have been a genuine heart's desire, because I got what I wanted. And it feels so great. And I adore the food I eat. Eating is a rapturous experience.

The concept of Underfeeding, will continue to be for me, the most urgent tool that I will attempt to teach people. My program "Aging Hot, a different frequency" will continue to be my budding life's work. Continuing the work of teaching 'Underfeeding" is an exhilarating prospect for me. And whoever you are, remember, "You are never too young to 'age hot!'"