Renegade Grace

Forgiveness: the gold ring

2010-10-05T13:11:00.000-07:00

ADDITIONAL QUOTATIONS

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has

crushed it.
–Mark Twain

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
–Mahatma Gandhi

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
–Norman Cousins

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
–Reinhold Niebuhr

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
–Francois de la Rochefoucauld

For my part, I believe in the forgiveness of sins and the redemption of ignorance.
–Adlai E. Stevenson

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
–Saint Augustine

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
–Gerald Jampolsky

God will forgive me. It’s his job.
–Heinrich Heine

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Fellini On Belief

2010-08-23T16:02:00.000-07:00

Not believing is exhausting.
Setting roadblocks, limiting oneself.

Believing is a form of expectation.
I’m always expecting something. I don’t know what.
I recognize myself here.
I don’t mean to lend a mystical connotation.
I just mean a state of the soul, a sensing in everyday life,
that this feeling of Belief, of Expectation, never leaves me.
–Federico Fellini

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Creating My Day

2010-07-11T06:51:00.000-07:00

– Dr. Joe Dispenza , Evolving Your Brain
www.drjoedispenza.com

"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

"So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm affecting the quantum ﬁeld. Now if (it) is, in fact, that the Observer (of ALL life) is watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created. And bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from You. And so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.

"I'll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that, during parts of the day, I'll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that's produced an effect in my physical body. Now that's a subjective experience, but the truth is, is that I don't think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would've come."

I offer this article by Dr. Joe Dispenza as the kind of simple, yet powerful, example of how you might begin to create new neuro nets in the brain to counter an old addiction. I believe it can help create and reveal the you that has been wanting to surface. It's empowering. Try it. Remember, it's only a template that can be altered to ﬁt you. Practice it in earnest, with dedication and humility. It will begin to change you and open a door for creative thought. It's fun, too.
Blessings,
Grace

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Giggle

2010-07-06T08:24:00.000-07:00

from Wonderful Ways to Love a Child by Judy Ford

Children are the merriment makers. With their miniature bodies they giggle and run and roll, they bounce and move all over the place. They wiggle when you hold them and they've got such exuberant energy that when they enter a room you notice. They like to touch and taste everything. And they can look you in the you in the eye with such charming honesty that for a second you don't know for sure what to do. There are so many things to be tickled about. Washing those sticky little ﬁngers and soft little chins can bring a smile to any sourpuss.

Life is full of the ridiculous, and children have a knack for seeing it everywhere. Four-year-old Annie was the smartest little girl. An adult asked her on day, "Do you have a boyfriend?" She looked at him; ran to her mother's side, started laughing, and answered, "That's a funny question." Then she giggled some more. Mom giggled too because it was such a silly question.

Giggling starts as a ripple and may expand into a deep belly laugh. It's truly therapeutic, relaxing, and calming. With a little laughter you're free to enjoy the absurd. Kids are quick to laugh, and you don't have to be a comedian to entertain them. Little kids, especially, will laugh at just about anything–just give them an excuse. A sill face or an absurd comment can elicit shrieks of delight, especially coming from you.

Sandy took a van full of third graders to the park. While driving down the road, the kids laughed and waved at the passers-by. Some grouches ignored the kids, but other folds smiled, honked their horns, and waved too; and then the kids laughed louder. If a kid waves a you, wave back; itʼs a very easy way to spread a lot of happiness around.

Never squelch those giggles. If you ﬁnd that you haven't felt giddy for a while, try talking gibberish or singing a nonsensical tune to break the ice; the reaction you get from your child will certainly keep the momentum going. And if you have really forgotten how to giggle, invite a team of thirteen-year-old girls to afternoon tea. That will surely get things going in the giggling direction.

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Healing Power of Laughter

2010-06-29T08:15:00.000-07:00

How Marx Brothers Brought Norman Cousins Back to Life

Article on blogspot of Joe Guse.

http://thehealingpoweroﬂaughter.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-marx-
brothers-brought-norman.html

Of all the research I've done on the healing power of laughter; none has failed to top the amazing story of Norman Cousins, as his life truly speaks to the incredible power of laughter. Having read several varying legends about Cousin's actual story, I decided to read his book Anatomy of an Illness and get to the source of the legend of the man who claimed to have literally laughed his way back to health.

His story began in 1964, where doctors found that the connective tissue in his spine was deteriorating, which a condition is known as Ankylosing Spondylitis. The doctors, one of whom was a close friend of Cousins, speculated that his chance of survival was approximately 1 in 500.

Faced with the real prospect of his impending death, Cousins thought long and hard about what role, if any he could play in his own recovery, and eventually did three things utterly contrary to medical opinion.

First he began his own research on all of the various drugs he was on. He discovered that his condition was depleting his body of Vitamin C and, based primarily on Cousins' personal research, doctors agreed to take him off several of the drugs he was on and inject him with extremely large doses of this supplement, as Cousins felt this may be his last hope.

Secondly, Cousins made a decision to check himself out the hospital and into a hotel room. Cousin's had concluded that hospitals, with their haphazard hygiene practices, culture of over-medication, general feelings of negativity, and routines that disrupted basic sleep patterns, all contributed to his feeling that, in his words a hospital was "no place for a person who is seriously ill."

The third thing Cousin's did was procure a movie projector and a large supply of funny ﬁlms, including numerous Candid Camera tapes and several old prints of Marx Brother's movies. On his ﬁrst night in the hotel Cousins found that he laughed so hard at the ﬁlms that he was able to stimulate chemicals in his body that allowed him several hours of pain free sleep. When the pain would return he would simply turn the projector back on and the laughter would re-induce sleep, and he was able to measure the changes in his body by measuring his blood sedimentation rate, a key measurement of inﬂammation and infection in the blood, and found that this rate dropped by at least 5 points each time he watched one of these videos,

Now off every drug excepting Vitamin C and laughter, Cousins described being in a state of euphoria over the next week as he continued to laugh himself back to health. Within a few weeks the beloved editor was back to work at the Saturday Review, and, although he still had some minor physical difficulties, his body continued to recover as he continued with his self- directed wellness program.

How in the world did this happen? In exploring this question it is interesting to consider Cousin's own state of mind, and how much his personal will to live as well as his personal attitudes contributed to his miraculous recovery. While in the hospital Cousins hypothesized that if negative emotions such as anger and frustration could contribute to poor health, why couldn't positive emotions such as joy and laughter have the opposite effect? Cousins soon embraced this idea, and this contributed to an optimistic attitude that may very well have saved his life.

So could Cousin's recovery be considered a mechanism of the placebo effect? In answering this question Cousins himself spoke to famous endocrinologist Ana Aslan who posited that creativity was the central trigger of the placebo effect, as it sets up a chain of events in the body's systems that eventually restores homeostasis and feelings of wellness, The implications of this assertion are potentially enormous, and certainly deserves further study.

In analyzing the potential placebo affect in his own case, Cousins attributed much of his own success to the close personal friendship and relationship he had with his doctor who fully supported his contributions to his own recovery and encouraged his highly experimental approach despite it not ﬁtting with his preconceived medical model.

This idea once again speaks to the power of the relationship between doctor and patient, which is now nearly universally accepted and statistically verified as the single most important predictor of positive outcomes in talk therapy. But could this also be true for physicians and patients in the world of medicine? A great deal of research seems to suggest that it is, and Cousin's case certainly speaks to this idea.

Most fascinating about Cousin's story though is the laughter.

Despite intense pain and discomfort, Cousin's made a point of
laughing so hard his stomach hurt during the early stages of his Marx brother's intervention, and this "unquenchable" laughter never failed to produce a strong reduction in his feelings of pain.

Cousins goes on to mention many prominent thinkers throughout the ages who knew about the healing power of laughter, and this list includes Sir Frances Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, as well as the great Albert Schweitzer. This list could be much longer, and Cousins own story has given rise to many knew ways of thinking that helped contribute to the rise of phenomena such as the laughter club.

Ultimately laughter may represent the rapture of the human spirit,
and in ﬁnding this rapture we also ﬁnd our way back to health.

Norman Cousins certainly thought so, and his journey back to life
through laughter is an inspiration to us all.

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LORD CHESTERFIELD

2010-06-22T19:51:00.000-07:00

Dude of Doom & Gloom – Sturm und Drang
(a guy so bad, we have to say it in German)

I found these quotations which startled me. I did a double take:
Was I seeing straight!?

There is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
–Lord Chesterﬁeld

Frequent, loud laughter is characteristic of ill manners.
–Lord Chesterﬁeld

His life spilled out in my imagination. This could not have been pretty! Even worse than I thought. Oh, lordy, Lord Chesterfield:

Chesterfield was selfish, calculating and contemptuous; he was not naturally generous, and he practiced dissimulation till it became part of his nature. In spite of his brilliant talents and of the admirable training he received, his life, on the whole, cannot be pronounced a success.

Lord Chesterfield Biography from Basic Famous People -Biographies...

Jeez Louise, what more do we need! Gimme a belly laugh, quick!

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How the Marx Brothers Brought Norman Cousins Back to Life

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ANALYSIS OF A LAUGH

2010-06-14T16:43:00.000-07:00

What Made Baby Thea Laugh?

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ANALYSIS OF A LAUGH (few snippets from Wikipedia)

A general theory that explains laughter is called the relief theory. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and psychic energy. This theory is one of the justifications of the beliefs that laughter is beneficial for one's health. This theory explains why laughter can be as a coping mechanism for when one is upset, angry or sad.

Philosopher John Morreall theorizes that human laughter may have its biological origins as a kind of relief at the passing of danger.

This is how this theory works in the case of humor: a joke creates an inconsistency, the sentence (or action) appears to be not relevant, and we automatically try to understand what the sentence (action) says, supposes, doesn't say, and implies; if we are successful in solving this 'cognitive riddle', and we ﬁnd out what is hidden within the sentence, and what is the underlying thought, and we bring foreground what was in the background, and we realize that the surprise wasn't dangerous, we eventually laugh with relief.

Otherwise, if the inconsistency is not resolved, there is no laugh, as Mack Sennett pointed out: when the audience is confused, it doesn't laugh (this is the one of the basic laws of a comedian, called exactness). The extent of the inconsistency (timing, rhythm, etc.) has to do with the amount of danger we feel, and thus how hard or long we laugh.

The look on her face, in Thea's photo, demonstrates clearly that her developing mind was in process of solving a cognitive riddle, an inconsistency. There was possible danger being processed. Somewhere within those three seconds of staring (after my double-take in the story), she resolved the conundrum. And because she laughed so hard and so long, it is assured that the success achieved was huge. She realized that the surprise was not, in fact, dangerous at all! A joke evolved her brain and health.

HIDE AND SEEK

Analyzing a laugh, is also related to, and resolves my personal, 21 year old cognitive riddle regarding a child's most primitive and persistent game – Hide and Seek! For me, the riddle was always Why this game? What's so intense and intriguing for them?
I'll throw my thoughts out there. From infancy till she was about ten, my daughter seemed obsessed. Every day we had to do the game over and over: under the covers, behind doors, through windows, hiding in closets, under the sink till she could barely ﬁt, in the dryer...! Endless.

But now, if I'm in line in a store and there is an infant in front of me, I am programmed to jump into the ritual: I gently and very clearly smile at them, cover my eyes, wait two seconds, then gently, but suddenly, lift up my hand, peek-a-boo, and smile. There is always a response. The response varies in intensity, but I get one! I know there is a certain skill in doing this for maximizing the effect (i.e. one of the basic laws of a comedian, called "exactness", timing, cleanness of movement, rhythm, etc.). Kids aren't fussy, they just want to laugh at any old thing!

Listen: I believe there is, for them, a clear Danger that the person has disappeared. And when you remove the cover, it is a Surprise, a delight, a relief, and a release of Psychic Energy, which both stimulates the brain to ﬁnd a solution, i.e., brain development, and also releasing something akin to endorphins, I bet. Laughter, so beneficial to health. We grow out of it. Grow back into it!

Listen: Kids are always looking for the next laugh. Thea, at 21, still is, and I have used her as my role model. Now I am always looking for the next laugh, too! Thank you, Thea. My daughter also adores Tickle Fights. When I asked her Why?, she welled up with tears. I waited. She looked at me after a few minutes and quietly whispered, It's Love. If that isn't gorgeous, what is?

Thea has become a booming, shrieking, gasping-for-breath laughter. Whenever he hears anybody laugh like that, her friend, Mark Kieth, calls it doing a Thea.

ADULTS AND HIDE & SEEK

Here's another thing: I think the ramifications of Hide and Seek go way deeper and persist into adulthood, as a basic primitive Calling, if you will. I believe this game, Hide and Seek, is part of our creative fabric. It EGGS US ON.

EGGS US ON

We are made in the Image and Likeness of Source Energy, which does nothing but Create. We are Chips-off-the-old-block.
We ain't gonna be happy unless we do the same! Egged on!
Source Energy creates effortlessly, that's the difference! But we are down here pushing our own envelopes. So when we attempt to Create, manifest a new desire, there is a sense of risk, danger. We get the Inner Nay-sayers playing inner videos of Doom and Destruction. For the sake of brevity, isn't this what keeps us from saying YES! It's the Ego, of course. Outrageous simplification, but the Ego is meant to protect us, keep us from crossing the street when there's a truck six feet away. We need to tell the Ego to Shut Up! when we're going for something we want to manifest in our lives! We're not going to disappear or die in the process of seeking to express and evolve ourselves. There's No Danger. Hey you, out there, Listen: Laugh much more. Keep your powder dry, keep on dancing, take on the ear-piercing street smarts of Ethel Merman in Gypsy, Sing out, Louise!

I see Hide & Seek as the Dance of Creative Life. Of us as
Creators. We put ourselves at Risk, in Danger (not really), waiting
for the Payoff Success and Relief. We're pushing the envelope.
IT'S WHERE LIFE IS. OUT THERE ON THE LEADING EDGE,
HON. WHERE THERE'S NEVER A CROWD!

REMINDER
Laughter is the language of God.
–Yakov Smirnoff
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
–Voltaire
Laughter is the closest thing to the Grace of God.
–Karl Barth
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
–Agnes Repplier
Laughter is the Renegade Grace of God.
–Grace Kingsley
God is continuously laughing his•her ass off.
-Grace Kingsley

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BLOG #2 • JUNE 22 • LORD CHESTERFIELD
Dude of Doom & Gloom – Sturm und Drang
(a guyʼ so bad, we have to say it in German)

BLOG #3 • JUNE 29 • THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER
How the Marx Brothers Brought Norman Cousins Back to Life

BLOG #4 • JULY 6 • GIGGLE from Wonderful Ways to Love a Child

DO WE EVER GET YES DONE?

2010-06-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

OLLY-OLLY-IN-FREE

Do we ever get it right? Do we ever get it done? Are we ever Home Free, Olly-Olly-In-Free?

You will always be challenged. Why? Because We Want It ALL. Because as soon as we have achieved one desire, another will soon pop up. Why? Because God is an ambitious God and we are God's kids. Chips off the old block. We are Creators. There is no end to the Desire to Create. And there it is.

Listen: Lucky for us, there's no hurry, there's no rush. Or what's an Eternity for?! Isn't it common sense, then, that what we want to focus on, is: how to Enjoy the journey!

The Journey itself is Home Free.
The Journey itself is where we get to be Olly-Olly-In-Free!
Pull up a chair. Make yourself at Home. You’ve arrived.

Here's the thing: Sometimes it's hard getting your head around the Eternity thing. Feels claustrophobic! Think expansive, think lots of room, many mansions. Things happen one step at a time and all over the place: Athletes break records; people invent cars, trains, planes; people walk on the moon. Our own individual next step can be more than we dreamed. Outside the Box is to employ Source Energy. God's dreams for us are always bigger and better. Our job is to Get Out of the Way! We're God dancing as us, in an earth suit. We're doing the God-as-us-in-the-earth-suit doing the outside-the-box-yes-dance. How cool is that! You decide what you want, employ the Divine to give you the Best Possible Version of your Yes, and get out of the way! You'll drop your jaw and buckle your knees. That's Outside the Box! Rule #1: GET OUT OF THE WAY!

THE FUTURE OF YES

Here's the thing: Cavemen haven't been around for 4,500 - 12,000 years. Not so long ago. Time seems to be speeding up as changes occurring on the planet – both technological and mind/spirit evolution (i.e. Quantum Physics, Quantum Perception) – catapult forward. We will be viewed as relics in a much briefer period of time – last week's software. But living with YES, with Source, never gets old. It Rocks on. Some Cavemen we dig up were Living with YES, for sure! Feeling Good is a classic. YES is The Magic Glue that links all Yessies. We are at the leading edge of thought on this planet. Iʼm Outside the Box as best as I can learn how. Why? Because Creating is more fun than anything else on the Planet. I want more. NOW!

If not now, WHEN?
How do we do it?
PRACTICE. What else?

Two quick practice examples from my life.
Shh. Don't tell anybody. This is what I'm going for:

Project involving a personal writing goal.
Project involving personal relationships.

(I want the kinds of things we all want)
I've lived YES with excellent results in the past, but now – as beﬁts a Creator-child-of-God, that's me! – I'm going renegade and outside the box into the Field of Inﬁnite Possibilities. I'm going for More and I'm amping up the Love, Trust, Belief, Expectation. I'm Owning It and Employing Source Energy. LIVING YES. I AM THAT. So be it.

Always remembering that LOVE is the GOLD RING. It's the BIG YES. If you forget Love, stop the Machinery! Regroup! If you forget Love, the Machinery will stop on it's own. And we're in the Machinery!

All is well. You are loved.
Hang out in Now and keep on Dancing.
What you want, wants you.

CREATING YOUR YES STORY

2010-05-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

"Start telling a better-feeling story about the things that are important to you. Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before yours eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws."
– Abraham www.abraham-hicks.com

You can create Each Individual Day. And you can create the larger picture of YOUR STORY. I do both. I am an extremely early riser and that time is the transformative part of my entire day. If morning is not your best time, find another. Call it a Spiritual Practice. Call it a ritual. Call it Herman, I don't care. Just have FUN.

The more you Enjoy this, the more you see Magic unfolding. No exaggeration. It's Creating Your Life Story as though your were writing a character in a book. Except it's you. It is meant to be pleasurable, not a chore. Pleasure is Key. Play with it, tweak it, mean it, watch it unfold.

When people manifest fabulous lives, they'll say to me, I don't believe it! And I remind them of the conviction and focus they had, the joy, the trust. They became immersed in the journey itself. They were thrilled by the journey. How could they Not manifest! That's how it's done, Sweetie. Own it. Become It. Have a giggle. Oh yeah, yes, yessie.

NEURO PATHWAYS – THE SCIENCE OF CREATING YES

It's one thing to recognize a Truth. To have this Knowing is sheer bliss. The next step to creating the new paradigm is Owning It. How? Practice, what else?

We practice to create new neuro pathways in our brain. The stronger those pathways become, the more automatic the habit. And as we practice the new habit, the old electrical pathways in our brain break down, disperse. We are creatures of habit. Be careful what you choose. Neuro pathways can be strong. Use the Mind to choose the new pathway over the old, i.e. Use the Mind to Change the Mind. Outstanding stuff.

We practice to build a skill, like learning the scales on a piano. Or golf: practice your swing. Over and over. Skill can become Art. Start small, Think Big. Bigger, hon!

Listen: All I ever do is practice. I'm a practicing machine. I'm practicing as I write this I'm practicing with every single person who appears before me as a client. I give them everything I've got. You think I'm in agony spending all this time. I'm high as a kite. Work, yes. Bliss, yes. Approaching Laugh Riot.

When we teach by example, we are practicing what we want to learn. Get happier and happier. Let your life be your proof. Walk Your Talk. It's on the wing. It's airborne. You're an aerodynamically moveable feast. You're loaded with Light and Yummy to be around!

IMPORTANT YESES

SAY YES TO YOUR CHILDREN

I just remember when I was young, there was clearly – from the father – such a negative feeling coming across all the time. He had to be boss, had to have the power.

He met his match. I was clever and determined. I had pincurls of peroxided hair hidden beneath my other hair. I shaved my legs when it was considered too soon for that sort of behavior! I smoked mentholated cigarettes called Newports in a cool ocean blue and white box. I wore short kilts and flirted with older boys through classroom windows and was sent home from school by a sadistic principal. I did whatever I wanted. I was also an A student. That got me extra rope on my leash. Smart doggie.

Gosh, I can no longer remember the name of the child-rearing book that advocated never saying No to your children. In theory I totally got it. If a kid is reared with constant No, imagine what you have given her/him as a legacy from the authority figures in their lives; imagine the deficit in their self esteem for most kids! I was fine with a bully when I was young, but there were ramifications later. So I advocate a YES approach 100%.

Listen, this is the catch: Saying Yes takes more time. Saying No is way easier. But there's no payoff. You are not helping to create a happy YES human being. On hindsight, I see my cliche case: I was like the parents who say No, but then relinquish. So sloppy. Ultimately, my daughter won out with begging, whining, crying, tantrum. She became a pro at never accepting No, even when No meant No. I had been inadvertently teaching her to hold out. I created a drama queen. It was exhausting. Madonna!!

What was suggested in the book, was to say No in such a way as to appeal to a child's sense of reason: perhaps there would be negotiations, caveats, so forth, but without actually saying the unfathomable word. Never– shhh! is kind of like saying Voldemort –unspeakable.

But too much talk is also fatal. Before you have finished your spiel, your child is in another time zone and you are a distant talking head. Thea would say things like: Too much information, mom, I canʼt hear you anymore. Her window of time for receptivity was approximately thirty seconds. Oy Vey! Your child, as I have attested, is your biggest guru. She is also the devil incarnate.

Yet, when I took that extra moment to go into the zone – take a breath, forgo the reactive behavior – everything worked so smoothly. Ultimately, it's also the easier way.

SAY YES TO EVERYONE WHO CROSSES YOUR PATH.

We are made from the same clay! We are all entangled.

Listen, this is what I mean: The people who serve you day after day – you may be one of them – the banker, the baker, the doctor, the lawyer, the waitress, the cashier, the grocer, etc – practice SEEING people. Take a second to remember what they are:

"...an unwavering band of White Light"
–Kurt Vonnegut

...just like you!

I know, I know, I know about impossible people...like I'm not one of them! Right. But that's surface stuff. Forget about that. I'm speaking of simple acknowledgement.

I'm speaking about what the quantum physicists call Entanglement. A fancy word for what Yogis in caves have known since forever: We are all One. Some of us know that, but the actual experience of it most often eludes us. It does not matter. Acknowledge their Divinity. Itʼs just like yours! See them! Or pretend to see them. With an open heart, it will work any old way. Tip your hat to them, so to speak. The Hindus say Namaste with a small bow of the head. Namaste means I honor the God within you, which is the same as the God within me.

Make the present moment Sacred. Make it Heaven on Earth. I'm not talking Love at First Sight. How about this:

"Please – a little less love, and a little more common decency."
–Kurt Vonnegut

SAY YES TO YOUR OWN SOUL

There can be serious, deeper deprivations, core betrayals, unconscionable NOs with which people burden their entire existences.

A man I cared for deeply, devoted himself to work in the burn unit of New York Hospital. His work was inestimable in the eyes of many. But I knew it wasn't his work. I knew it within the first week of our relationship. If you pay close attention to a person when you first know them, there are intuitions to be trusted. I said, "You do realize this is not your work, don't you?" Shocked, he bolted from his chair and said. "What are you talking about? How would you know that? What might I have said..." I could not answer him, but I was correct. He was meant to be a writer. Though his work was valuable, he went against his Soul. He died at age 52.

I can give you half a dozen personal examples of people who have betrayed their Core. They said NO to their inner voice, their Soul. They paid with their lives. You will not survive well becoming a ...milkman, postman, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief... if what you really want to do is paint pictures.

Again, I reference The Bard:

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
–Shakespeare, Hamlet

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BLOG #2 • June 2 • DO WE EVER GET IT DONE?

BLOG #3 • June 10 • HEROS OF YES

UNDERFEEDING • PART B: PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

2010-05-07T09:29:00.000-07:00

“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!'"

UNDERFEEDING - PART A: PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

2010-04-30T09:25:00.000-07:00

When I first heard this concept from Gabriel Cousens ('underfeeding' is Gabriel's word), I immediately had a Knowing of the Truth of this. It's as though I always knew it. I am always surprised when people begin by seeing this as a form of starvation. Nothing of the sort. As Deepak Chopra points out: "Under-nutrition is not the same as Malnutrition." Why? Because not only will you be eating less, you will become aware of all the essentials and eliminating the garbage.

Deepak Chopra, in his #1 New York Times Best-Seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, has to say about "eating frugally": "Of all of the factors listed as prescriptions for longevity, frugal eating is the one that has caught the imagination of almost every person who consciously tried to live a long life." For centuries the literature of longevity has been filled with testimony about the virtue of strict dietary abstinence. A fifteenth century Venetian nobleman named Luigi Cornaro is famed in gerontology because he resolved, after a roaringly dissolute youth, that he would mend his ways, pursue a healthy course of life, and try to survive to at least 100. He succeeded spectacularly. In an age where the average person was fortunate to live to 35, Cornaro lived to 103 and remained active and clear-headed to the end. His method for achieving this feat was to abstain from drinking and to eat very sparingly: In essence, he fasted from age 37 onward, following ancient Greek and Roman notions of frugal diet as the secret of longevity.

Dr Roy Walford, a noted gerontologist at ULA and an outspoken advocate of under-nutrition, is one of the few scientists actually to take up the method himself.

[In experimentation with mice] Earlier research had shown that eating a restricted diet only every other day was highly effective in increasing life span. In addition, the mice were tapered into their new diet gradually, allowing their bodies to shift their metabolic set point to accommodate dietary restrictions without abrupt changes.

Your metabolic set point is a brain mechanism that regulates how fast your body burns fuel. It also indicates when you feel hungry or satisfied. If you try to impose a diet on yourself that disagrees with your metabolic set point, the brain will create cravings for food until more is supplied. By changing the metabolic set point gradually Walford coaxed it into line with the meager calories called for in under-nutrition. He advises the same tapering process for people who adopt his method, taking several months or years to adjust to a 40 percent reduction in caloric intake.

"The idea is to loose weight gradually over the next four to six years," he says, "until you're 10 to 25 percent below your set point. (Unknowingly and unwittingly, this is the story of what happened to me!) That's the weight you'll drift toward." The gradual restriction of calories has to include careful food selection to make sure that all vitamins and minerals are included -- UNDER-NUTRITION IS NOT THE SAME AS MALNUTRITION.

Upcoming weekly installations:

BLOG #4 • May 7 • UNDERFEEDING: PART B PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

NOT OLDER, BETTER

2010-04-23T09:23:00.000-07:00

“What we wish and expect for ourselves
governs the response we get.”
–Deepak Chopra Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
– the New York Times #1 best-seller

“The new paradigm tells us that we are constantly making and unmaking our bodies at the quantum level, which means that we are constantly unfolding hidden potential. Some of this potential is negative, some positive.

The ﬁeld [Deepak Chopra speaks of the quantum “ﬁeld of inﬁnite possibilities”] takes a neutral attitude; “...what we wish and expect for ourselves governs the response we get.”

If we consider how to improve physical and mental function every day for the rest of our lives, three values emerge that must be part of everyone's intention:

longevity itself, since life is a primary good
creative experience, which keeps life interesting and makes us want more of it
wisdom, which is the collective reward of long life.

It's impossible to set limits on what can be achieved in each area. Creativity and wisdom inspired Picasso, Shaw, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, and other long-lived geniuses to the day they died. Verdi wrote one of his greatest operas, Falstaff, at the age of 80, and the German Alexander von Humboldt completed his greatest work, Cosmos, at 89. There is immense beauty and dignity in these autumnal achievements; the dome of St. Peter's seems even more masterful for the fact that Michelangelo designed it in his ninth decade.

Psychologists who study creativity say that artists and writers often can produce more new ideas in their sixties or seventies than in their twenties. One interesting variable is that the later you take up any creative pursuit, the more likely you are to pursue it into old age. Eliot Porter, on of America's premier landscape photographers, did not publish his ﬁrst picture until he was past 50; Julia Child came to television when she was past midlife. In both cases, success steadily increased through the next three decades.

Creative experience may enhance the structure of the brain itself. Chinese studies of old people in Shanghai indicate that less educated people have higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's disease; the implication is that educated people, having been trained to use their minds, stimulate healthy brain activity. PET scans show increased blood ﬂow to the brain during periods of creative thought; a distinctive EEG of coherent rhythms across all bands of brainwave activity is associated with the “Aha!” or “Eureka!” experience that characterizes art and creativity in general. Also, it's a myth to think that it harms the brain to get too wrapped up in mental work. As long as it is enjoyable, concentrated mental activity gives rise to alpha-wave patterns typical of “restful alertness,” the relaxed but aware state also found in meditation.

Certain desirable neurotransmitters such as serotonin also increase during pleasurable creative activities (again, the same change is associated with the restful alertness found in meditation). The neurological picture is still debatable, but the real-life results–more years of fulﬁlling existence–are not. It would appear, then, that to want as much life, creativity, and wisdom as possible is very desirable. If your expectations in these areas are low, you are not likely to exceed them, while setting very high standards makes every decade worth looking forward to. I am fond of Robert Browning's line, drilled into my head as a child in India:

“A manʼs reach should exceed his grasp,
or whatʼs a heaven for?”

Upcoming weekly installations:

BLOG #3 • April 30 • UNDERFEEDING: PART A PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

BLOG #4 • May 7 • UNDERFEEDING: PART B PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

Aging and the Quantum Mind: PART B: ANTIDOTE FOR THE OLD PARADIGM

2010-04-15T10:26:00.000-07:00

“To challenge aging at its core, the entire worldview must be
challenged ﬁrst, for nothing holds more power over the body
than beliefs of the mind.”
-Deepak Chopra
Following materials from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
New York Times #1 Best-seller by Deepak Chopra

The most signiﬁcant breakthrough (re: AGING) is not contained in isolated ﬁndings but in a completely new worldview. The ten assumptions of the old paradigm (Renegade Grace: the newsletter) do not accurately describe our reality. They are inventions of the human mind that we have turned into rules. To challenge aging at its core, the entire worldview must be challenged ﬁrst, for nothing holds more power over the body than beliefs of the mind.

Each assumption of the old paradigm can be replaced with a more complete and expanded version of the truth. These new assumptions are also just ideas created by the human mind, but they allow us much more freedom and power. They give us the ability to rewrite the program of aging that now directs our cells.

THE TEN NEW ASSUMPTIONS ARE:

(and please note: assumption for assumption is a response to the ten "old" assumptions in the April 15 NEWSLETTER - fun and illuminating to compare)

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer (it is important to the understanding of these assumptions that in the world of Quantum Physics, WE ARE THE OBSERVER. We are observing our own lives. As we observe, what we BELIEVE about what we observe becomes our reality! There is NO "OBJECTIVE" REALITY OUTSIDE THE OBSERVER) We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

In their essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and and information, not solid matter. (this was a WOW! for me) This energy and information is an outcropping of inﬁnite ﬁelds of energy and information spanning the universe.

The mind and body are inseparably one. The unity that is “me” separates into two streams of experience. I experience the subjective stream as thoughts, feelings, and desires. I experience the objective stream as my body. At a deeper level, however, the two streams meet at a single creative source. It is from this source that we are meant to live.

The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions that uphold life in every cell. An aging cell is the end product of awareness that has forgotten how to remain new. (Another WOW!)

Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.

Impulses of intelligence create your body in new forms every second. What you are is the sum total of these impulses and by changing their patterns, you will change.

Although each person seems separate and independent, all of us are connected to patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos. Our bodies are part of a universal body, or minds an aspect of a universal mind.

Time does not exist as an absolute, but only eternity. Time is quantiﬁed eternity, timelessness chopped up into bits and pieces (seconds, hours, days, years) by us. What we call linear time is a reﬂection of how we perceive change. If we could perceive the changeless, time would cease to exist as we know it. We can learn to start metabolizing non-change, eternity, the absolute. By doing that, we will be ready to create the physiology of immortality.

Each of us inhabits a reality lying beyond all change. Deep inside us, unknown to the ﬁve senses, is an innermost core of being, a ﬁeld of non-change that creates personality, ego, and body. This being is our essential state–it is who we really are.

We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer (the "observer", which is you) is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

These are vast assumptions, the makings of a new reality, yet all are grounded in the discoveries of quantum physics made almost a hundred years ago. The seeds of this new paradigm were planed by Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Plank, and the other pioneers of quantum physics, who realized that the accepted way of viewing the physical world was false. Although things “out there” appear to be real, there is no proof of reality apart from the observer (you are the observer). No two people share exactly the same universe. Every worldview creates its own world.

I want to convince you that you are much more than your limited, body, ego, and personality. The rules of cause and effect as you accept them have squeezed you into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime. In reality, the ﬁeld of human life is open and unbounded. At its deepest level, your body is ageless, your mind timeless. Once you identify with that reality, which is consistent with the quantum worldview, aging will fundamentally change.

“A new scientiﬁc truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start.”
-Max Planck

Max Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory, and thus one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. (God Bless Max Planck and Quantum
Physics. Amen!)

Upcoming weekly installations:

BLOG #2 • April 23 • NOT OLDER, BETTER “What we wish and expect for ourselves governs the response we get.”

BLOG #3 • April 30 • UNDERFEEDING: PART A PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

BLOG #4 • May 7 • UNDERFEEDING: PART B PRIMARY SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL LONGEVITY

THE MIRACLE OF CLEANSING THE COLON WITH WATER

2010-04-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

Water is the only element that can be a liquid, a solid, and a gas. Itʼs utterly singular and magical in itʼs diversity of forms and functions and importance and necessity to every part of our lives here on the planet. I am in love with WATER.
There is no question my favorite element is WATER. I am also a water sign. We need all of the ﬁve elements, but water is my ʻterritoryʼ, my ʻstationʼ, my ʻpassionʼ. It is my most important food, healer, comfort. It cleans us inside out, it nourishes us as our primary food and life force and source of daily energy (I promise you)! It provides us with bounty even without soil (hydroponically grown foods), foods from the ocean, not only ﬁsh, but sea vegetables. Water even provides us with entertainment, relaxation
and rejuvenation, including bathing in lakes, pools, oceans, steams, saunas, hot tubs, etc. My area with water has to do with cleansing of the colon. Throughout history, many wise people have experienced that when they ensure that the colon is cleansed and healed, the well being of the whole body is greatly enhanced.
Cleansing the Colon with Colon Hydrotherapy (Colonics) has been found to be the most effective process to accomplish this pivotal healing work quickly and easily.
Norman Walker, my hugest hero and role model, has this to say regarding Colon Hydrotherapy:
"No system of healing can ever be permanently effective until the eliminative organs have been thoroughly cleansed of accumulated waste matter."

More and more of us living in the US are choosing to recognize our self-responsibility for health and well being. This has led to a renewal of interest in natural, holistic methods of living and healing the body. One of these methods, as old as manʼs civilization, is cleansing the colon. Originally, it was accomplished by squatting in a stream bed and drawing water up into the colon, then expelling it. This can be attributed especially to Yogis who had control over their musculature.

Historians tell us that the practice of Colon Hydrotherapy or, in its most basic form, the enemas was ﬁrst used by the Egyptians. In Ancient Egypt a ramʼs horn or gourd was hollowed out and utilized as the ﬁrst primitive colon hydrotherapy machine.

The Ebers Papyrus, of the 14th century B.C., and the Edwin Smith Papyrus (c. 1700 B.C.), both mention enemas and give directions for the use of the enema. Enema pots and plants shaped in the form of plastic tubing (reeds) were constructed. The Essene Gospel of the third century stated, "The uncleanness within is greater than the uncleanness without. And he who cleanses himself without, but within remains unclean, is like a tomb that outward is painted fair, but is within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations." (I am an Essene in and I love this. It goes
back far before Christ! Is it not an utterly mind blowing quotation!).
For every possible question regarding Colon Hydrotherapy, check out the corresponding section on my new website.
Colon Hydrotherapy by Petaluma Healing Arts

ESSENE THURSDAY COMMUNIONS
Morning Communion with the ANGEL OF WATER

All the waters the Creator hath made are Holy.
May I be blessed that the Angel of Water enter my blood
And I feel the rushing current of the river.
And like rivulets of a stream, send the power of God to all parts of my body.
And it shall be for healing
For the power of the Angel of Water is very great.

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WHAT COUNTS AS WATER?

2010-03-29T12:28:00.000-07:00

I'm bringing this subject up a second time. It is signiﬁcently important.
What about coffee, carbonated beverages, chemicals added to create ʻnatural hydrogenʼ in water, ʻcaffeine freeʼ organic herbal teas, and ʻLiveʼ juices? So whatʼs wrong with diet soda anyway?

The basic human substance of life on which all life is based seems to be very complicated. Without water, life doesnʼt happen. What is the mystery of the chemistry of life? Any farmer can tell you that a rich soil, that if there is not adequate moisture, will not grow seed. The seed will never germinate without proper hydration. (Neither will we!)

The Secret of Water

The function of water is to bring active natural hydrogen into the cell, so the cell becomes hydrated and the DNA of the nucleus becomes hydrated. Hydration is hydrogen-donating electrons. This is the Secret of Water.

Once we understand this principle, we can then begin to understand why certain beverages are not particularly conducive to our electron input.

For example, caffeine drinks, soda drinks of any kind, bond to hydrogen and therefore stop the hydration, similar to letʼs say carbon monoxide (CO) binding to hemoglobin and therefore not allowing the oxygen to function. Carbonated beverages create a similar situation, because they create a chemical acidity that is not a natural hydrogen and thy also bind the hydrogen. They also create a false acidity by
creating a carbonic acid. So, you cannot simply add hydrochloric acid to water and think that is going to be a hydrated water. Chemicals added to water do not necessarily create a natural hydrogen in the water.
Every plastic bottle of water sold removes oxygen and hydrogen from the water and puts in plastic!! Need I say more. Throwing your money away. More importantly: throwing your health away!

Even caffeine-free Herb teas -- although they create a nutritional drink, are not necessarily a hydrating drink. This is because they have a high TDS (total dissolved solids: which tells you the amount of minerals and other frequencies in the water, such as pesticides and herbicides and so forth) and the result is that the hydrogen ions and electrons are bound up. This doesnʼt mean that herb teas are bad, it simply means that they are not hydrating; they are for nutritional and herbal effects and not for hydrating. This is an important clarifying principle.

Live juices are very good because they are alkaline, have many minerals, live enzymes, nutrients and they ARE hydrating. But they are not necessarily as hydrating as puriﬁed water (reverse osmosis or distilled). Live juices have other urgently important functions. They ʻMAINLINEʼ the highest nutrition on the Planet as they bring enzymes, alkalinity, minerals, nutrients, directly into the cells. They are predigested and, as such, if the digestive system is compromised, they go RIGHT IN ANYWAY! Awesome magic.

ESSENE THURSDAY COMMUNIONS
Morning Communion with the ANGEL OF WATER

All the waters the Creator hath made are Holy.
May I be blessed that the Angel of Water enter my blood
And I feel the rushing current of the river.
And like rivulets of a stream, send the power of God to all parts of my body.
And it shall be for healing
For the power of the Angel of Water is very great.

Upcoming installation:

Blog #4 • April 5 • THE MIRACLE OF CLEANSING THE COLON WITH WATER
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YOUR BODYʼS MANY CRIES FOR WATER

2010-03-22T09:56:00.000-07:00

I have always understood the major role of WATER, not only in the Health of our Bodies, but in the health of the Planet as well. My understanding has joyfully snowballed with two books: Your Bodyʼs Many Cries For Water and the book introduced in blog #1 - Messages From Water.

The following section is basically a series of paraphrases and quotations from
Your Bodyʼs Many Cries For Water by F. Batmanghelidj, MD
IF YOU PURCHASE ONLY ONE BOOK FOR YOUR HEALTH,
THIS IS THE ONE. AMEN!

This book explains a new discovery that lack of water in the body - chronic dehydration (unbeknownst to us and medical professionals alike!!) - is the root cause of many painful degenerate diseases such as: asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight, and some emotional problems including depression. The book explains the damaging effects of dehydration.

You will learn how to use water to:

Prevent and reverse premature aging
Eliminate pains including heartburn, back pain, arthritis, colitis pain, anginal pain, migraine headaches
Cure asthma in a few days, naturally and forever
Cure hypertension without diuretics or other medication
Lose weight effortlessly and naturally, without strict dieting

Medical professionals of today do not understand the vital roles of water in the human body.
Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the human body.
-F. Batmanghelidj, MD

THE SIMPLE TRUTH

The simple truth is that no one recognizes the signs of dehydration. The signs are misread. “The simple truth is that dehydration can cause disease. Everyone knows that water is “good” for the body. They seem not to know how essential it is to oneʼs well being. They do not know what happens to the body if it does not receive its daily need of water.”

“In advanced societies, thinking that tea, coffee, alcohol, and manufactured beverages are desirable substitutes for the purely natural water needs of the daily “stressed” body is an elementary but catastrophic mistake. It is true that these beverages contain water, but what else they contain are dehydrating agents. They get rid of the water they are dissolved in plus some more water from the reserves of the body!”

”Currently, practitioners of medicine are unaware of the many chemical roles of water in the body. Because dehydration eventually causes loss of some functions, the various sophisticated signals given by operators of the bodyʼs water rationing program during severe and lasting dehydration have been translated as indicators of unknown disease conditions of the body. This is the most basic mistake that has deviated clinical medicine. It has prevented medical practitioners from being able to advise preventive
measures or offer simple physiologic cures for some major diseases in humans.”

THE SOURCE OF ERROR IN MEDICINE

“The human body is composed of 25 percent solid matter (the solute) and 75 percent water (the solvent). Brain tissue is said to consist of 85 percent water.”... “The human body is even now regarded as a large ʻtest tubeʼ full of solids of different nature and the water in the body as a chemically insigniﬁcant ʻpacking materialʼ.”...
At the root of the problem:.. “It is presumed, because water is freely available and one does not have to pay for it, that the body has no business in falling short of something that is available!”

The problem is that we often most misread our bodyʼs cries for water as hunger.
WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE OUR BODIES CRIES FOR WATER.
WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE SIGNS OF DEHYDRATION.

...”At the moment, the ʻdry mouthʼ is the only accepted sign of dehydration of the body. As I have explained, this signal is the last outward sign of extreme dehydration. The damage occurs at a level of persistent dehydration that does not necessarily even demonstrate a ʻdry mouthʼ signal.”

Consequently, we have huge percentages of the population dehydrated and dying of diseases that might have otherwise had a simple, basic, FREE, solution in the natural and magical beneﬁcence of WATER.

Because the medical professionals truly do not understand our bodies needs for water, so many people who have diseases are actually dehydrated and have been for years; often, for a lifetime.

“Referring to any medical text book, you will see over a thousand pages of verbiage, but when it comes to giving the reasons for the major diseases of the human body, the statement in all cases is uniform and very brief: ʻEtiology unknown!ʼ”

THE NEW PARADIGM
A new scientiﬁc truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start.
-Max Planck

ESSENE THURSDAY COMMUNIONS
Morning Communion with the ANGEL OF WATER

All the waters the Creator hath made are Holy.
May I be blessed that the Angel of Water enter my blood
And I feel the rushing current of the river.
And like rivulets of a stream, send the power of God to all parts of my body.
And it shall be for healing
For the power of the Angel of Water is very great.

Upcoming installation:

Blog #3 • March 29 • WHAT COUNTS AS WATER?
Blog #4 • April 5 • THE MIRACLE OF CLEANSING THE COLON WITH WATER
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WATER: THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS

2010-03-15T13:01:00.000-07:00

Messages from Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto

What the Bleep?

If you have not yet seen the ﬁlm What the Bleep?, give yourself a treat. Even better, get the Quantum Edition from Amazon for under $20. It includes three discs with movie and interviews of the Quantum Physicists. A genuinely upbeat movie with big questions and hopeful answers. The interviews are unsurpassable! You are transported into a metaphysical world of quantum mechanics, surprising science and mind-bending phenomena. Guided by the worldʼs top physicists, engineers, biologists and mystics. A ﬁrsthand look at the fascinating links between science and spirituality in our everyday lives.

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH WATER?

One of the scenes takes place in a subway station where there is a display of large photographs of water crystals that formed various shapes according to the messages that were placed on the containers. Experimentation, with both frozen samples and Darkﬁeld samples (dried water under a high powered microscope), were conducted under the auspices and direction of Dr. Masaru Emoto, Doctor of Alternative Medicine at the Open International University of Japan. He is a Specialist in microcluster water technologies. and author of several books including Messages from Water. The samples were frozen or dried with no message, no information and then samples were frozen or dried with various messages such as : GRATITUDE; APPRECIATION; THANKS; CHI OF LOVE; PEACE, and so forth. The samples with the messages made the most incredible crystal formations imaginable. In the movie, there were displayed huge photos of these extraordinary crystals. As it happened, this portion of the ﬁlm was high on the list of favorite scenes. The crystals are unfathomably beautiful!

CHI OF LOVE

As a result of this ﬁlm, because our Bodies are, at MINIMUM, 75% water, I created a tattoo for my wrist that said CHI OF LOVE. I must tell you, I believe it is at least one of the reasons that my life has so drastically changed! I honor the waters that ﬂow through my body. I am grateful to those waters and I love them and it has changed my life. In addition, of course, I drink between two and three quarts of water daily. THAT I KNOW HAS CHANGED MY ENERGY.

This is what I have written on my 3 gallon jugs of water at home:

YOU HAVE GIVEN ME LIFE FORCE ʻOUTSIDE THE BOXʼ
THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU. BE AT PEACE

In addition: I AM DEEPLY HONORED THAT IT IS MY PRIVILEGE AND PROFESSION TO WORK WITH WATER. I AM PHENOMENALLY BLESSED. IT HAS EVOLVED ME.

Dr. Emoto contends that Water is ʻThe Source of All Thingsʼ. He is certainly not the ﬁrst to hold this position. Records reveal that Greek Philosopher Thales from the B.C. era held this position as well. Dr. Emoto feels that Water on the Planet is not at Peace. He feels that if we express love and gratitude to Water - the Source of all things, then Water will be at Peace, and we will have taken a step toward creating Peace for mankind. He believes that this simple action will serve as a prerequisite to Peace. HIS EXPERIMENTS GIVE UNDENIABLE TESTIMONY TO THIS TRUTH. As an addendum: When one expresses this love and gratitude to Water, it goes without saying, that oneʼs inner attitude is important. It is not mere formality. It is us imbued with a new paradigm. Blessings to you today. Enjoy this Miracle.

ESSENE THURSDAY COMMUNIONS
Morning Communion with the ANGEL OF WATER

All the waters the Creator hath made are Holy.
May I be blessed that the Angel of Water enter my blood
And I feel the rushing current of the river.
And like rivulets of a stream, send the power of God to all parts of my body.
And it shall be for healing
For the power of the Angel of Water is very great.

Upcoming installation:

Blog #2 • March 22 • YOUR BODYʼS MANY CRIES FOR WATER
Blog #3 • March 29 • WHAT COUNTS AS WATER?
Blog #4 • April 5 • THE MIRACLE OF CLEANSING THE COLON WITH WATER

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PUMPING MENTAL, SPIRITUAL, & PHYSICAL IRON

2010-03-07T18:43:00.000-08:00

So, what do I mean by this and what does it have to do with the unification of Eroticism & Spirituality so that we can have a less fractured existence?

We’re not talking about refurbishing tables and chairs. If we’re restoring tables and chairs you don’t necessarily have to be in great physical or mental shape.

When we’re talking about putting body & soul in sync, it’s a different game. It’s the kind of game that has the same requirements as preparing for the Olympics. Oh
yes. Gotta be serious, motivated, focused, and committed. But not impossible and,
for my money, it’s the only game in town!

So, WHAT’S THE GAME? IT’S THE ‘HEAVEN-ON-EARTH’ GAME

It’s the ‘Who are we, why are we here, where are we going?’ game. I believe we are here to feel as good as the Source Energy we came from. The game is achieving Heaven on Earth. That kind of answers everything. It is definitely when Eroticism & Spirituality are ONE. It is when we feel ‘as good as it gets’. JOY RULES.

PRACTICE IS THE BASIS OF CHANGING BRAIN PATTERNS & NEURONETS EVERYTHING WE WANT TO LEARN TAKES PRACTICE. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT FOCUS, MOTIVATION, PRACTICE. THINK OLYMPICS. NUTSHELL of WHAT TO PRACTICE:

BODY: PUMPING PHYSICAL IRON

Your Temple. Shall I repeat that? Your Temple. We have to take care of it because it’s WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS. IT NEEDS TO BE YOUR FOUNDATION. What are you putting in it? Are you exercising? It’s a must. Are you drinking enough water? It’s a must. What about diet? It has been my absolute experience as a practitioner that MOST PEOPLE think they have a good diet and actually they do not!!! AN AMAZING FACT. Come to see me. I have helped so many people transform themselves. Read my testimonials. I will help you find the right fit. This is IMPERATIVE to moving forward. IT IS THE ESSENTIAL FIRST STEP.

MIND: PUMPING MENTAL IRON

PRACTICE OBSERVING YOUR THOUGHTS. PRACTICE MONITORING THEM AND CHOOSING WHICH ARE ALLOWED IN THE TEMPLE. Thoughts (What are you
thinking about all day. Who are the people, situations, etc. surrounding you i.e.
What are you seeing on TV, newspapers, magazines, books, listen to on radio, etc,
etc.). Thoughts are Nutrition, and so, if they are negative, you will be degrading
your food on a cellular level. This is Quantum Physics.

SPIRIT: PUMPING SPIRITUAL IRON

When your body and your mind are in great shape, your Spirit becomes Whole. And then you think of Prayer, Meditation, Stillness, Silence. It is a natural progression. PRACTICE THESE THINGS. Eventually THEY BEGIN TO ‘HAPPEN’ TO YOU. YOU ‘BECOME’ STILLNESS, SILENCE. YOU ‘BECOME’ A LIVING PRAYER.

So, HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM HERE?

Gabriel Cousens is fond of saying ‘Don’t sacrifice eternity for that which dieth in an hour’. Amen. He’s not talking about eternity when you die. He’s talking about creating Heaven on Earth! Heaven on Earth is looking for the next laugh; it’s being excited about grass in Spring time; it’s a zillion small things that all of a sudden have power to bring tears of joy to your eyes. It’s the ability to experience what must be ‘God’s thoughts’. It’s when EVERYTHING IS EROTIC & SPIRITUAL; when you cannot wait ‘til it’s time to get up in the morning; it’s when your mind is on fire with the flow of ideas. It’s the ‘E’ words: energy, enthusiasm, excitement, ecstasy, eroticism. ERGO: I AM THAT!

“When you are really in the flow with your Inner Being, ideas come easily—they are implemented easily. It's fun while you are in the process of them, and it doesn't matter how they unfold; and nothing can go wrong, and it doesn't matter if you don't get it done, it's just fun to do it.” -Abraham

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INTENTION, ETHICS & THE EROTICISM OF SPIRITUALITY

2010-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:00

The MIND is Queen and King. And yet,
our mind is affected by the health of our body.
RADIANT HEALTH, or the lack of it, affects the
CLARITY of our INTENTIONS and it affects
our ability to access and Know our own innermost TRUTH.

RADIANT HEALTH

...enables the ease with which KNOWINGS ‘bubble up’ to remind us of who we really are and what we really want. We Trust these Knowings
because there is a Pure YES in response to them. It’s when nothing in
our bodies says NO.
Radiant Health, within the physical body, means this:
The body, itself, will feel Electric and Erotic. You will sense the true
meaning of physical freedom and joy because the body is free of toxic
irritants. You are in tune with and at ONE with the sensuality and
depth of beauty in nature and within your own self. Your body
becomes Erotic and Electric because you are in sync with Divine
Source Energy! Yes, Divine Source Energy is Electric & Erotic.
When you begin to have this kind of experience through RADIANT
HEALTH, you have a lot of Energy and Power. You Begin to genuinely
love yourself. And then, of course, it is a natural by product that you
become very attractive to others.
This is where INTENTION and ETHICS enter in, i.e.: CRITERIA to use
for choosing what to DO with this abundance of Energy and Force of
inner Attraction and Power.

ETHICS

1. TELL THE TRUTH

‘To thine own self be True,
and it shall follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.’
-Shakespeare

Don’t be in denial about any part of your life. Speak your Truth.

2. INTENTION IS ALL

Intention of ‘no harm’ and ‘no control’ over any person in any way.
Sincere Intention on every ethical aspect
Sincere Intention on the heart level.
Sincere Intention to be in sync with DIVINE SOURCE ENERGY

RECAP: It’s the Intention in your Mind and Heart you want to examine.
HARM NO ONE. CONTROL NO ONE.

DON’T HARM YOURSELF EITHER: A person might conclude that if you love someone and they want you to be a certain way, which, at your CORE, you are not, that you should acquiesce. No, no, no. It goes like this: YOU MIGHT wish to bend in certain ways that please people you love, but when it comes to the CORE of who you are, and your SOUL’S
DESIRE of how you want to live your life, bring no HARM to your own Inner Self.

EROTICISM of SPIRITUALITY

Why am I going through the hoops of addressing Intention and Ethics prior to discussing Eroticism of Spirituality? Because most people see Eroticism & Spirituality as separate, and even opposing concepts. I am saying you can live a fuller, more joyful life if you don’t put them in separate boxes, and that they are most definitely not opposing concepts. And in order to do that, I feel you must address the Ethics of Truth and Intention as prerequisite. Why do you want to do this or even think about it? Because, to my mind, I want EVERYTHING in my life to be Spiritual. I am also an Erotic being. I have found that to separate these concepts is neither joyful nor Truthful! To understand this in the deepest part of your being, is a great blessing. This is the BIGGEST GOODEST NEWS!

I ALWAYS WANTED, AND KNEW, THAT THE ENTIRETY OF MY LIFE NEEDED TO BE UNIFIED: SIMULTANEOUSLY EROTIC & SPIRITUAL. IT IS MY EXPERIENCE THAT THIS IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT THAT THIS IS TRUTH.

Examples from my life:

• If I love someone and I want to express my love in a physical manner, I want that love to be Erotic and stemming from Spirit. I don’t want there to be some intellectual idea somewhere within me that says one is Spiritual Love, one is Secular Love. This Knowing that they are One has enriched my life. You cannot dictate that this will be the belief of your partner, but it will, nevertheless, make an undeniable difference in the quality of energy that your partner is receiving from YOU.
Experience for me: Erotic & Spiritual.

• When I held my child in my arms for the first time, I buckled at the knees, and experienced what I can only describe as Rapture. Where did this come from. It came from the overwhelming love in my heart and the openness to fully experience it within my body. Fully present with Divine Source Energy? Oh yes.
Experience: Erotic & Spiritual.

• When my mother died at a very young age, I was ripped open. She was the closest person in my life. I prayed to be able to handle this. I was bathed in Light. My body was buzzing, vibrating. I KNEW she was changed, not dead.
Experience: Erotic & Spiritual.

• My friend, Julia, JUST before she died, seemed transported. Her sister, Marg, asked her what she was experiencing. Seemingly annoyed at being distracted, she retorted, “Ecstasy, my darling, Ecstasy!”
Experience: Erotic & Spiritual.

• Georgia O’Keefe, hounded by blather that all her flowers looked like vaginas, said simply: “I painted them big so you could SEE them.” Truth be told, some of us, myself included, saw them, and a number of her other paintings, as doors, windows, and passage ways to infinity, to a center, the core of existence, something Erotic & Spiritual. Choose your Truth well. A PERSON’S PERCEPTIONS DEFINE THEM.

A PERSON’S PERCEPTIONS DEFINE THEM. Choose your perceptions well.
Be defined by something that is worthy of a child of God.
You’re a chip off the old block! Own it. It’s all Sacred.
Experience the EROTICISM of SPIRITUALITY in all things.

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RADIANT HEALTH & THE ELECTRIC BODY

2010-02-14T04:08:00.000-08:00

First rule: Tell the Truth

‘To thine own self be True,
and it shall follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.’
-Shakespeare

This is not a dissertation. It’s not going to take me two years to tell you, so let’s get down to it. We’re going to start with NUTRITION. MY version of nutrition includes EVERYTHING you put in your body. Let’s talk THOUGHTS.

THOUGHTS

What are you thinking about all day long? Because you’re eating it! Are you thinking about your next ‘project’ or your next ‘bill’? A very long time ago, I had a sign engraved for my desk, and it said ‘The only thing you can’t afford is a negative thought.’ I wanted to take my daughter to Europe and I had no money. We went. The money came. We went, in fact, three Christmases in a row. This is good stuff. It’s Pollyanna, yes. I tell people ‘Pollyanna works!’ Highly underrated she is.

Who are the people, places, thoughts you surround yourself with regularly?

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THOUGHTS: If you’ve got a sad thought, an angry thought, depressed, vengeful, jealous, hopeless, whatever... Quantum Physics tells us the scientific bottom line: On a cellular level, in your bloodstream, that thought is mixing with your food and degrading it. LEARN THIS IF NOTHING ELSE. SADNESS et. al., IS DIET FOR DISEASE BY DEFAULT. Know what the heck you’re doing! Stop rearranging
deck chairs on the Titanic.

FOOD

What are you moving into your Sacred Temple, huh? ADDICTION or MIND ON FIRE, BODY ELECTRIC? I guarantee you, you cannot have both. But people do what I call ‘Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic’. They don’t tell the truth. They go through mental-avoidance-denial-gymnastics to keep their caffeine, chocolate, processed foods, you-name-it while their bodies/minds go down the tubes. Then they call the doctor, call the therapist, have acupuncture, have a massage, maybe an espresso, collapse on the floor in a puddle claiming they’ve done EVERYTHING swearing they HAVE a good diet! S.A.D. - Standard American Diet is poison, hon. I’m giving you THE REAL DEAL in a nutshell. Find out about THE REAL DEAL. I’ll help you. I’ve worked with people for years and I-walk-my-talk. Wanna feel erotic, spiritual, mentally flying, in love with life, body electric? It’s not a fantasy!

What do you have to do?

Tell the Truth, pump some mental, physical, spiritual iron, get on a program, cleanse your body with a fabulous cleanse, GET OFF YOUR ADDICTIONS. YES, YOU HEARD ME. ADDICTIONS. Get your hands off the deck chairs! TELL THE TRUTH. The body is literally DYING TO LIVE. I tell my age because it helps: I’m 68. I’ve been thru the wars. I feel stronger and better than I ever have in my life. I’ve learned a thing or two. It added up. My mind is, indeed, on fire. My body electric. Want that? It’s yours. Get some good help.

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You will not believe the sensuality you feel, the expansiveness, the love, the eroticism, the spirituality, exciting flow of ideas in the mind. And then you will KNOW: These things are linked. You will taste Freedom and begin to have a taste of how these things are ONE. You will EXPERIENCE this sweetest of nectars. And you will have that in your data base forever. Trust me, you will not want to let it go. Gabriel Cousens is fond of saying ‘Don’t sacrifice eternity for that which dieth in an hour’. Amen. He’s not talking about eternity when you die. He’s talking about Heaven on Earth!

Addictive behaviors are tricky. KEEP ON KEEPING ON. YOU CAN OWN IT, SWEETHEART! MOTIVATION IS ALL. MIND IS QUEEN AND KING.

FYI: I believe in you. You can have what you want. Begin. JDI. Just do it!

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Breaking a Fast

2010-02-06T08:22:00.000-08:00

“Even a fool can fast, but a wise man knows how to break a fast properly”

Breaking a fast is the most significant, and perhaps hardest part of the fast. The effect of the fast can be compromised if it is not broken with discipline. The main discipline to follow is...DO NOT OVER EAT. The second practice is to take several days to transition back to your new diet. If the fast is under ten days then about four days is sufficient. If it is over ten days, then add one day for every four days of the fast. The third practice is to chew your food slowly and extremely well. The reason for this is that during a fast one’s digestive system has taken a rest and it often restarts slowly. By chewing one’s food well we help support the digestive system. To further reactivate digestion it is helpful to break the fast after 10AM, as this is the time that the powers of digestion begin to become activated. It is also useful to add ginger and citrus juices as digestive stimulants.

At the end of a fast the body is able to absorb more nutrients with less food. Research had shown that we normally absorb 35% of what we take in. At the end of a fast the food utilization is up to 85%. The end of a fast is an extraordinary opportunity to reorganize ourselves around a new quality of diet. Our cellular memory has been cleared and our sensory system associated with eating has been cleared. What we put back into our bodies can really be what we want to rebuild our bodies with.

A general schedule program for coming off a seven to ten day fast is:

Day 1: Continue juices and broth schedule: apple after 10AM and a small vegetable salad between 1 - 2 PM

Day 2: 5 organic prunes or figs with the soaking water for breakfast; a fresh vegetable salad for lunch; vegetable broth with the veggies in the soup, for dinner; and two apples as a snack in between meals. Begin to diminish juices as per your convenience.

Day 3: Same as day two, add a little quinoa for lunch and if you wish: discontinue the juices.

Day 4: Larger portions if desired.

Fasting and Spiritual Awareness

Fasting not only accomplishes a physiological regeneration and rejuvenation of your body, but has a profound stimulating effect on your mental faculties. It also increases your spiritual awareness. It is important, therefore, to adopt a proper relaxed attitude. Try to disassociate yourself from the usual everyday problems and the worries of the material world, and let the refinement and perfection of your inner self come to the fore as the ultimate purpose of our existence.

Fasting is the time of rest, meditation and renewal of body, mind and spirit. In most religions - Oriental, Hebrew, Christian, Muhammadan - periodic fasting plays a vital part, for two reasons: one, to keep the body (the temple of the spirit) clean; two, to keep the spirit attuned with its Divine source.

You will notice that during fasting your visual and mental perception and awareness of aesthetic beauty will be sharpened and that your thoughts will gradually raise from a lower, everyday level of unpleasant realities to higher realities, concerned with the purpose and meaning of your Divinely designed life. Your daily walk in the woods will be a new and totally different experience. The singing of the birds will sound like the most inspiring Bach oratory, and the tall trees will appear as mystic gothic cathedrals. You heart will rejoice, our earthly problems will seem unimportant, and you’ll feel happy to be alive. You will count your blessings instead o your problems.
And you will be amazed at how your mental activity will be sharpened and how thoughts and new ideas will flow with ease.

All in all, your first fasting will be a wonderful experience , which will recharge, renew and rejuvenate your whole personality - mind, body, and Spirit.

ADDENDUM • WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU!

The body, itself, will feel electric and erotic. You will sense the true meaning of physical freedom and joy because the body is free of toxic irritants. You almost feel you might ‘lift off’. You are in tune with the sensuality and depth of beauty in nature and within yourself. You are one with the eroticism of the planet. Your body becomes Erotic and Electric because you are in sync with Divine Source Energy! Yes, Divine Source Energy is Electric and Erotic...

...which brings me to the topic of my next ‘Renegade Grace’ Newsletter:

RADIANT HEALTH, EROTICISM, SPIRITUALITY: THE JUNCTURE

Why JUICE fasting is superior to WATER fasting

2010-01-31T00:43:00.000-08:00

It used to be that the classic form of fasting was a pure water fast -- the abstinence from all foods or drinks with the exception of pure water. The renaissance of water fasting in the US happened around the turn of the century. It was popularized here mainly by immigrant European nature-cure practitioners.

Fasting methods in Europe and the US have completely changed and now practically all European clinics use exclusively juice fasting. This is most often also the case in the US. However there are American practitioners and clinics specializing in fasting which still use the antiquated water fast method.

Again I refer to Juice Fast Pioneer Paavo Airola from his classic book "Are You Confused?":

“I have supervised both types of fasting and am thoroughly convinced of the superiority of juice fasting. Dr. Otto H.F. Buchinger, who supervised more fasts than any other doctor (over 80,000), employed only juice fasting. He told me that, in his experience, fasting on the fresh raw juices of fruits and vegetables, plus vegetable broths and herb teas, results in much faster recovery from disease and more effective cleansing and rejuvenation of the tissues than does the water fast.

The scientific justification of juice fasting

The scientific justification of juice fasting is based on the following physiological facts:

Raw juices, as well as freshly made vegetable broths, are rich in vitamins, minerals, trace elements and enzymes.
These vital elements are very easily assimilated directly into the bloodstream, without putting a strain on the digestive system -- thus they do NOT disrupt the healing and rejuvenating process of autolysis, or self- digestion, as suggested by some water fast proponents.
Contrary to the opinion of some writers, fruit and vegetable juices do NOT stimulate the secretion of hydrochloric adcid in the stomach, which can lead to ulcers. Hydrochloric acitd is mainly secreted when protein-rich foods are eaten.
The nutritive elements from the juices are extremely beneficial in normalizing all the body processes, suppling needed elements for the body’s own healing activity and cell regeneration, and thus, speeding the recovery.
Raw juices and vegetable broths provide an alkaline surplus which is extremely important for the proper acid-alkaline balance in the blood and tissues, since blood and tissues contain large amounts of acids during fasting.
Generous amounts of minerals in the juices, particularly in the vegetable broth, help to restore the biochemical and mineral balance in the tissues and cells. Mineral imbalance in the tissues is one of the main causes of diminished oxygenation, which leads to disease and the premature aging of cells.
According to Dr. Ralph Bircher, raw juices contain an as yet unidentified factor which stimulates what he calls a micro-electric tension in the body and is responsible for the cells’ ability to absorb nutrients from the blood stream and effectively excrete metabolic wastes.

Thus, raw juice fasting is of particular importance when you fast for the regeneration and the rejuvenation of your body. Juice fasting will help to break down and dispose of the old dying cells, revitalize the active cells, and accelerate the new-building of young, vital cells.

Here is what Dr. Ragnar Berg, perhaps the world’s greatest authority on nutrition and biochemistry, said about the superiority of juice fasting to water fasting:

‘During fasting the body burns up and excretes huge amounts of accumulated wastes. We can help this cleansing process by drinking alkaline juices instead of water while fasting. I have supervised many fasts and made extensive tests of fasting patients, and I am convinced that drinking alkaline-forming fruit and vegetable juices, instead of water, during fasting will increase the healing effect of fasting. Elimination of uric acid and other inorganic acids will be accelerated.And sugars in juices will strengthen the heaart...Juice fasting is, therefore, the best form of fasting.'

Are you fasting or not?

The proponents of water fast like to tell you that the juice fast is not a fast, it is a liquid diet. They misunderstand the therapeutic meaning of fasting. Any condition when your body is encouraged to initiate the process of autolysis, or self-digestion, is fasting. During juice fasting, when no solid foods, proteins or fats are consumed, your body will decompose and burn all the diseased and inferior protein and fat tissues, just as it does during the water fast. Juices are absorbed directly into the bloodstream without the usual process of digestion. The only difference between the juice fast and the water fast is that during the juice fast your body’s eliminative and detoxifying capacity is increased; the healing processes are speeded up and you feel less debilitated. But if someone insists upon calling this superior healing, reducing and rejuvenating method a juice diet, instead of a juice fast, let him do it if it makes him happy.”

Addendum

Because this is my Newsletter, I am here to tell you, it is the Renegade Grace position that the so-called ‘Master Cleanse’ - misnomer if there ever was one! - is, in my opinion, an extremely poor investment in health, and will ultimately gain you nothing, if you are lucky. If you are not so fortunate, compromised health.

To drink sugar water with no nutrients other than a little lemon is, in my estimation, tantamount to choosing the same inferior effects as a water fast. It has long been solely by the power of the word ‘Master’, that we have become ‘hooked’. Take that hook out of your mouth, little fish!

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There’s hidden sweetness
in the stomach’s emptiness
-Rumi

If you’ve lost all will and control,
they come back when you fast,
like soldiers appearing out of the
ground, pennants flying above them.
-Rumi

Why Colon Cleansing is ESSSSENTIAL to Fasting!

2010-01-25T14:25:00.000-08:00

TOPIC OF JANUARY RENEGADE GRACE, IS ‘FASTING’
I chose ‘fasting’ because this is how my daughter (age 21, and myself, 68) decided to ‘bring on’ and ‘ring in’ the New Year. A renegade choice in that it is, for sure, not the traditional way of doing things. Some cajoled I was ‘depriving’ my daughter. Hello: she approached me! Exciting, very cool stuff, in my estimation, for a 21 year old to make this request. Hip, rewarding, illuminating and incredibly bonding for us.

DANGER: Do not Fast without this!

I am going to quote (and paraphrase a little) an excerpt from Are You Confused? by Dr. Paavo O. Airola. He was born in Findland in 1918 and settled in Arizona in the 70’s (big era for fasting and stabilizing the groundwork for huge acceptance in the states. I was there for it! Gosh the timing was good!). In my estimation, his information on fasting is the most exceptional I have ever read. His experience in this area has been unsurpassed and his contribution in this field, unparalleled.

Cleansing the Colon during Fasting:

“I have seen rather horrifying examples of what prolonged fasting can do. [he refers specifically to water fasting, which he does not recommend and neither do I. Fresh pressed organic veggie juice, favoring green, is the ticket!] A few months ago, a man arrived at our Spa from recent treatments at a famous American clinic where he fasted for 32 days on water. During all this time he was advise to stay in bed, with the exception of short periods of sunbathing. He was given no colonics, not even an enema. He told me that it took him two months ‘to recuperate’ from this fast and get on his feet. He was still in a very weak condition with damaged kidneys and severe edema in his legs. Several former patients of this particular clinic advised me that they were told that it takes an amount of time equal to the fasting time to recuperate from the effects of fasting! I showed him one of our colon-cleansing-juice-fasting patients, who was just completing the last day of his one month juice fast. He was active all the time during fasting, walked 3 to 5 miles each day, took yoga and other exercises, cleansed the colon DAILY, and felt, on the last day of the fast, stronger and healthier than before the fast. He was actually loaded with vitality. This patient did not need any recuperation period after his fast -- his fast indeed WAS a recuperative and regenerative period!"

Does it get any better? Trust me, this is where the miracles lie if you choose to be responsible, and do the protocol properly.

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There’s hidden sweetness
in the stomach’s emptiness
-Rumi
If you’ve lost all will and control,
they come back when you fast,
like soldiers appearing out of the
ground, pennants flying above them.
-Rumi

Preparation for Fasting

2010-01-14T16:51:00.000-08:00

I chose ‘fasting’ because this is how my daughter (age 21, and myself, 68) decided to ‘bring on’ and ‘ring in’ the New Year. A renegade choice in that it is, for sure, not the traditional way of doing things. Some cajoled I was ‘depriving’ my daughter. Hello: she approached me! Exciting, very cool stuff, in my estimation, for a 21 year old to make this request. Hip, rewarding, illuminating and incredibly bonding for us.

I have been to dozens of fasting retreats and conducted many fasting
retreats. I have seen so many persons (not on my retreats, to be sure)
begin fasting without any prep whatsoever. In they walk, up to their
eyeballs in standard-American-diet-mode, and leap the next morning
into fasting. Yikes! Results: 3 or 4 days of agonizing Healing Crisis. A
healing crisis can range from mild headache to migraines, nausea, flu-
like symptoms, and barely able to rise up in the morning as poisonous
toxins flood into the bloodstream. Healing Crises can be hugely
alleviated with proper preparation and common sense.

The better your dietary habits prior to fasting, the more enjoyable the
fast itself. There are very few people who do not know at least the
basic rules of good nutrition. Let’s begin with the most urgent things to
eliminate prior to fasting:

caffeine, alcohol, soft drinks, sugar, dairy, processed foods of any kind.

A processed food is any food that, from nature, has been tampered
with in some way. Can you tell what it is by looking at it? No?
Processed. If it’s in a box, a bottle, a bag, frozen...got the idea.
Cooking, of course, kills approximately 85% (or more) of the vitamins
and all of the natural enzymes that aid in the digestion of that food. If
we are not getting the natural enzymes from the food itself, we ‘rob
Peter to pay Paul’, and the body ages, yep! Finally, eat organic,
eliminate poisons at the source, irradiation, and now - genetic
engineering.

It is not, by the way, necessary to eliminate all cooked foods. No need
to overwhelm yourself at the onset. I recommend lightly steaming
veggies, especially the green leaves. A ‘Prep’ day might look
something like this:

Fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch, an avocado, steamed veggies for
dinner. And add some fresh pressed veggie juices throughout the day.
If you must have some grains: be sparing and choose quinoa or millet,
or a baked sweet potato. And from there, continue to cut down. And,
of course, the Magic, miracle food: WATER.

My daughter and I are not big eaters, so as we went into our fast, we
prepped with salad, avocado, olive oil, and a little fruit. We did this for
three days and began fasting on veggie juices (fresh pressed of
course) and a small amount of apple juice.

NEXT BLOG WILL ADDRESS WHY CLEANSING THE COLON IS
ESSSSSSSSENTIAL!!!! DANGER: DO NOT FAST WITHOUT THIS!
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YOUR BODYʼS MANY CRIES FOR WATER

Medical professionals of today do not understand the vital roles of water in the human body. Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the human body. -F. Batmanghelidj, MD

THE SIMPLE TRUTH

THE SOURCE OF ERROR IN MEDICINE

THE NEW PARADIGMA new scientiﬁc truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start.-Max Planck

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WATER: THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS

Messages from Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto

What the Bleep?

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH WATER?

CHI OF LOVE

This is what I have written on my 3 gallon jugs of water at home:YOU HAVE GIVEN ME LIFE FORCE ʻOUTSIDE THE BOXʼTHANK YOU. I LOVE YOU. BE AT PEACEIn addition: I AM DEEPLY HONORED THAT IT IS MY PRIVILEGE AND PROFESSION TO WORK WITH WATER. I AM PHENOMENALLY BLESSED. IT HAS EVOLVED ME.

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PUMPING MENTAL, SPIRITUAL, & PHYSICAL IRON

So, what do I mean by this and what does it have to do with the unification of Eroticism & Spirituality so that we can have a less fractured existence?

So, WHAT’S THE GAME? IT’S THE ‘HEAVEN-ON-EARTH’ GAME

PRACTICE IS THE BASIS OF CHANGING BRAIN PATTERNS & NEURONETS EVERYTHING WE WANT TO LEARN TAKES PRACTICE. IT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT FOCUS, MOTIVATION, PRACTICE. THINK OLYMPICS. NUTSHELL of WHAT TO PRACTICE:

BODY: PUMPING PHYSICAL IRON

MIND: PUMPING MENTAL IRON

SPIRIT: PUMPING SPIRITUAL IRON

So, HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM HERE?

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INTENTION, ETHICS & THE EROTICISM OF SPIRITUALITY

RADIANT HEALTH

ETHICS

1. TELL THE TRUTH

2. INTENTION IS ALL

EROTICISM of SPIRITUALITY

I ALWAYS WANTED, AND KNEW, THAT THE ENTIRETY OF MY LIFE NEEDED TO BE UNIFIED: SIMULTANEOUSLY EROTIC & SPIRITUAL. IT IS MY EXPERIENCE THAT THIS IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT THAT THIS IS TRUTH.

Examples from my life:

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RADIANT HEALTH & THE ELECTRIC BODY

I see Hide & Seek as the Dance of Creative Life. Of us as
Creators. We put ourselves at Risk, in Danger (not really), waiting
for the Payoff Success and Relief. We're pushing the envelope.
IT'S WHERE LIFE IS. OUT THERE ON THE LEADING EDGE,
HON. WHERE THERE'S NEVER A CROWD!

“What we wish and expect for ourselves
governs the response we get.”
–Deepak Chopra Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
– the New York Times #1 best-seller

“A manʼs reach should exceed his grasp,
or whatʼs a heaven for?”

“To challenge aging at its core, the entire worldview must be
challenged ﬁrst, for nothing holds more power over the body
than beliefs of the mind.”
-Deepak Chopra
Following materials from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
New York Times #1 Best-seller by Deepak Chopra

“A new scientiﬁc truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start.”
-Max Planck

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Medical professionals of today do not understand the vital roles of water in the human body.
Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the human body.
-F. Batmanghelidj, MD

THE NEW PARADIGM
A new scientiﬁc truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start.
-Max Planck

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This is what I have written on my 3 gallon jugs of water at home:

YOU HAVE GIVEN ME LIFE FORCE ʻOUTSIDE THE BOXʼ
THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU. BE AT PEACE

In addition: I AM DEEPLY HONORED THAT IT IS MY PRIVILEGE AND PROFESSION TO WORK WITH WATER. I AM PHENOMENALLY BLESSED. IT HAS EVOLVED ME.

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‘To thine own self be True,
and it shall follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.’
-Shakespeare

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