Bernarr Zovluck on Towards Freedom

How Loving Touch Heals

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:36:57 -0800

“Healing love” energy flows through “healers” fingers into diseased parts of a sick person’s body, when “healers” gently and lovingly touch sick parts of that body. It is the energy that heals, not the “healers”. The healing energy does not come from the “healers” own energy. This healing energy comes from the vital “life” force flowing through all living forms. Every cell in our bodies has “intelligence” that responds to this “life” energy and knows what to do in every situation.

Touching it where it hurts is the most innate response to pain. The “healers” hands must come into contact with the sick person’s body. The sick area of the body always feel tense, rigid, taut, stiff, tight and resistant to the “healers” touch.

The “healers” touch with their fingers and continue to touch the sick area, with thoughts of love. They continue to touch, with their fingers, until they can no longer feel tension in the sick area. They do not stop touching the sick area of the body, till the sick person tells them that the sick person feels well. When the “healers” discern that the sick area of the body feels relaxed, they know that the sick person subjectively feels well.

During the loving touch healing, teach the sick to close their eyes, keep the eyes closed, to concentrate, to meditate, to feel, to think on the discomfort in the sick area of the body. The sick person keeps the eyes closed till the sick person no longer feels discomfort in that part of the body.

The “healers”, with gentle, light pressure feel and examine with their fingers, the surface of the sick person’s body. They feel for any abnormal consistency of the parts in the area where the sick person complains of feeling discomfort. They touch and compare by feeling, the sick area of the body with other normal areas of the body near the sick area. They touch and feel the corresponding opposite “normal” part or side of the sick area of the body. The “healers” touch “normal” areas of the body near the sick area and the corresponding opposite “normal” part or side of the sick area. They do this so as to know what “normal” feels like in that sick person’s body. This is done so as to ascertain if the sick part of the body is “normal” or “abnormal”, when compared with “normal” parts of the body. The “healers” must concentrate on the sick person’s sick part. They must “feel” that the sick part of the person is the “healers” own sick part, when the “healers” touch the sick part. The “healers” must empathize and vicariously identify with the person’s sick part.

Teach sick persons that their bodies are constantly talking to them. Teach them to keep their eyes closed and feel, meditate, concentrate, think on what their bodies are telling them to do. Teach them to do what their bodies tell them to do. Teach them that they can touch with their own fingers, sick parts of their own bodies and “heal” themselves.

If all living beings are touched lovingly, they will feel better and get better. Since all humans, animals and plants are made of the same vital “life” force, they receive the same life energy when lovingly touched, and will feel better and get better.

How does touching lovingly heal? No words are needed yet a communication of love is exchanged. It has been shown by Kirilian photography that there is an energy emitted by humans. This subtle energy can transfer information directed by the mind, focussed by intention, attention and imagery. This healing energy is transmitted through the hands when touching lovingly. It is capable of effecting the balance of cell membranes and the DNA and thus the health of living cells. It also creates a healthy change in the blood chemistry.

The healing energy is called “chi” by the Chinese, “ki” by the Japanese and in India it is referred to as “parana”. This healing energy comes from the life force flowing through all living forms. Every cell in our body has an intelligence that responds to this “life” energy and knows what to do in every situation.

We swim in a sea of loving energy that interpenetrates and activates all our systems. A person is more than a body, but actually is the energy being used and received during this process.

We are all “healers” of each other. Studies show that the human touch increases the chances of survival among premature babies. Children who are touched often learn better, are happier and grow at their normal rate. A mothers touch eases a children pain. Even animals touch their young with this “love” energy.

Do you remember when you last stubbed your toe? Didn’t you hold it in your hand and rub it. We all have an innate instinct of healing our-selves. Through our fears and misguided direction, we have forgotten what we inherently should know.

The influence of touch, the “laying on of hands”, as it is called, is a very old religious tradition and is being used right down to the present. In our time, there are many evangelists and “healers” who have “healed” incurables. There are successful “healings” by chiropractors and health practitioners when their patients, through manipulation, receive this “healing” energy. We also receive a “healing” touch when we get a massage or during Reiki (Japanese word for universal life energy).

An ailing part of the body is reported as feeling better after manipulation and touch. Improvement occurs far too frequently for its explanation to be ignored. One international “healer” conducted a controlled laboratory experiment on uterine cervical cancer cells. After touching a goodly number of cancer cells, the cancer cells all healed. This was successfully repeated 30 times.

All one need do, is become a calm focused conduit for the “universal life” energy and direct the energy to the sick persons problem area. The more “hands on” direct contact with a part that needs healing, the more healing love is transferred.

During the “touch” healing, communicate non-verbally to the sick person: “I care about you”, “I love you”, “Your life matters to me”. Touch with your heart wide open. The healthier and more loving the person doing the touching, the better the healing results of the sick person.

Healing energy comes through the fingers of the “healer” into the sick part of the sick person’s body. A feeling of warmth or tingling is felt from the “healers” hands. The person receiving the healing feels a gentle relaxing warmth throughout their body. This is the “chi”, the “ki”, the “parana” energy of love from the universe.

Touching lovingly is reassuring, nuturing and strengthens the sick person’s “will to live”. Be motivated by a profound desire to heal and communicate the restorative energy to the sick person. The “healer” also benefits from the process as the “healing love” energy flows through the “healers” body and out through the “healers” fingers. This is how the universal “life” energy responds for the service that is being performed.

Love is the most powerful healing energy and it is transferrable by lovingly touching. Our inability to love ourselves, or to receive or give love to others, is the cause of all illnesses.

Today, make a conscious choice to take full responsibility for your own body. Communicate with your body by the language it understands, “love”. Then listen to what it is telling you. The body makes itself known to us by how we feel. If you feel well, then you know you are expressing “love” in your life and to others.

To Be Loving Is Never Having To Be Sorry.

How to Lose All the Weight You Want and Keep It Off

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:36:57 -0800

Obesity is excessive accumulation of body fat. The study of fat and of obesity, is known as bariatrics. Fat is a pathological accumulation of unwanted tissue in the body. Obesity is a state of disease.

Less than 5% of patients who lose weight by traditional medical approaches keep their weight off indefinitely.

Surgery for weight-loss is dangerous. Many (of these weight-loss) patients suffer problems associated with surgery that include infection, urinary stones, liver failure and heart failure. Surgery for weight loss, consists of gastroplasty (stomach stapling), intestinal bypass and gastric bypass, which all cause harmful complications. The surgeon goes in and removes part of one of the abdominal organs. The idea is that you put all the food that you wish into one orifice and it will come out the other orifice at the back. You have no assimilation. You can eat all you want and you won’t accumulate fat.

Liposuction is dangerous. Surgically removing the fat from a particular area or having your fat cells extracted with a suction device, can cause you infection, disease and discomfort. In treating the fat symptoms while ignoring the real causes of your fat problem, the fat weight returns in other parts of the body. The stomach bubble to lose weight produces serious side effects.

Don’t wear rubber or vinyl exercise suits, rubber belts and body wraps to lose weight. You have only a temporary water-weight loss which is dangerous. You can suffer serious dehydration and restrict circulation - even death from heatstroke - when you exercise under these conditions. Those lost inches have nothing to do with a loss of fat tissue, and they return in a few hours or days, as each cell fights to re-establish the proper water balance.

Do not use steam baths, sweat baths, sauna tone nor sweat suits, to lose weight. The weight you lose thereby is all water and salt. As a perspiring and roasting victim, you will regain all the lost weight, when you take a drink of water.

All diet drugs are unhealthy and dangerous and should not be used on a sensible weight loss program. All drugs that reduce weight do so by impairing nutrition and by crippling the body. Do not take diet pills, appetite suppressors nor water pills. You can develop the following symptoms as a result of taking them: Excitement, talkativeness, restlessness, tremors, dizziness, hyperactive reflexes, nausea, dry mouth, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, fever, dehydration, mydriasis, tachycardia, hallucinations, delirium, mania, convulsions, coma and death in circulatory collapse. The billionairess Christine Onassis died at age 37, of taking such drugs.

Liquid protein diets are dangerous because you will end up with gallstones, gall-bladder disease, damage your kidneys, pancreas and lungs. They are soil for putrefactive bacteria.

Diets don’t work! Try making permanent lifestyle changes that include smarter eating, regular exercise and effective stress management. Watch what you eat, not how much. To lose weight and keep it off permanently, you need to “rehabilitate” your metabolism. Each time you diet and restrict your food, your metabolism slows.

T.C. Fry and Victoria Bidwell write that to lose weight you must become re- educated. “Weight loss is realized by the overweight person, not by how much food is eaten or how much exercise is taken, but by WHAT KIND OF FOOD IS EATEN and how he (and she) manages his total life practices.” … “What is necessary is that the obese individual learn to eat the proper, natural food of his (and her) biological adaptation to the exclusivity of all modern, man-made, processed, devitalized, chemicalized food.

Dr. Herbert Shelton wrote, “The fat person who is unwilling to cultivate new eating patterns must face the fact, so long as he persists in merely modifying the eating pattern that is responsible for his overweight, he will continue to reduce and grow fat by turns and never succeed in establishing and maintaining a satisfactory weight.”

“People become obese mainly from eating food that is devitalized. They overeat because they are malnourished, and they are truly hungry. People who consume fresh fruits and salads don’t overeat or become obese because the enzymes, minerals and vitamins are still intact in these foods. When the body has fulfilled its requirement of these nutrients, it signals the brain that it is satisfied. Processed foods lack these nutrients; therefore, no signal is sent to the brain to stop eating.”

You do not become overweight on a natural diet. If overweight and you go on a natural diet consisting mainly of raw foods or natural, unprocessed foods cooked as little as possible, your weight rapidly normalizes even if caloric intake exceeds usage!

You can lose weight and eat all you want. It is absolutely essential to totally masticate food. Food that is thoroughly liquefied in the mouth releases its flavor and so is more pleasurable. Since the food is easily and completely digested, it is more filling, so again, fewer calories are more gratifying. This is one of the secrets of losing weight and keeping it off forever. Slim people eat slowly, fat people eat fast. The fatter we are, the faster we eat, and vice versa. Concentrate on eating healthy, nutritious food. Carefully remove every last lump from the food before swallowing them - drink your food and chew your drinks.

Eating this way will make you more conscious of what you are eating, and so less likely to eat junk food and other bad food, and again, less likely to overeat. You will be less inclined to eat between meals. It is nearly impossible to overeat when the food is thoroughly chewed. The trick is to liquefy the food. It takes 20 minutes for the brain to get the message that the person has had enough to eat. That is why this method should work.

Never eat until you are very hungry. Every cell and part of your body must be exercised before you eat. This is for the food you eat to be properly metabolized. Create a demand for the food every time you eat. If you put the best food in your body when you are not hungry to eat, the food will create an overweight condition, dysfunction and pathology for you.

If the body receives fewer than 1,100 to 1,200 calories per day, it automatically slows its metabolism to conserve the available calories to carry out its functions. Thus weight loss is not possible. To lose fat, not less than the minimum calories must be consumed to keep the metabolism rate high. Exercise must be done.

You grow weaker as you grow fatter. To lose weight, you need to burn more calories. If you exercise when you diet, you make the weight come off as fat. Muscles, if their growth is promoted, will provide the ground work of genuine physical beauty. Muscles, the more they grow, the more beautiful they become. Bodily form, the perfect figure, can be developed only by muscular development and proper control of weight by sensible eating. There is no other way to achieve and develop this desirable element of genuine physical beauty.

Farmers know how to put fat on their hogs, cows and poultry. They overfeed their animals and limit their movement and activities. To speed up your metabolism, you must decrease the amount of fat in your body and develop more muscle. Muscle has a much higher metabolic rate than fat and burns more calories even when you are sleeping. Muscle weighs more than fat. This is why body weight has very little to do with determining if you are overweight. The increase in metabolic rate with exercise lasts even after the exercise is finished. Dieting without exercise leads to muscle loss. Muscle cells are precious fat-burning factories. Your goal is to increase (not reduce) the body’s percentage of lean muscle tissue so you can stay slim and enjoy more food.

You must exercise to lose weight. Exercise is the key. If you vigorously exercise before you eat, you will eat less. Most people are not overweight because they eat too much. They’re overweight because they’re inactive. Weight loss depends on creating a demand for the energy stored in fat tissue. Dieting just won’t do the trick, because no matter how few calories you take in, they must be used somehow, or they will be stored. Exercise promotes weight loss by helping to regulate appetite. Appetite refers to the food we crave, while hunger refers to the nutrition the body needs. You must learn not to want what you should not have.

Muscles cannot turn to fat, contrary to popular conception, that if you stop exercising regularly, muscles will turn to fat. Muscle and fat (adipose) are two separate and distinct tissues. They simply do not have the physical capability of changing from one type of tissue to another. Exercising while dieting (and forever after) perseveres and helps build more muscle, allowing you to maintain your ideal weight permanently on more calories. No diet aid can firm you up-only exercise can.

Lean muscle has the highest resting metabolic (calorie burning) rate of any tissue. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn, day and night! Muscle burns calories even at rest, while fat tissue is virtually dead weight. Loss of calorie-gobbling lean muscle tissue makes it easier to regain lost fat weight on fewer maintenance calories after your diet is over, contributing to the familiar “yo-yo” syndrome.

Muscles burn fuel. When you lose muscle tissue, your ability to metabolize the calories you consume, is decreased. If you switch back to normal eating patterns at the end of the diet, you may actually gain the weight back faster than you lost it. Do those vigorous exercises that you feel good doing. You can exercise anywhere. Exercise whenever you watch T.V., listen to the radio or audio tape, etc..

Do exercises that are progressively stressful or resistant. Do exercises that are comfortable and safe, that you enjoy, that suit your life-style, at a convenient facility or program, at a convenient time of day or night, as long and as frequently as possible, as regularly as possible and that you will follow throughout your life. Exercise every part of your body as vigorously as possible every day. Be aware of each bodily part.

Exercise until the resulting fatigue is a delicious languor that woos and wins sleep. Start exercise with an amount that is easy to perform. Advance gradually and increase it slowly. Muscles should be contracted to their fullest extent and joints should be carried through their full range of possible movement. Place great demands upon your body and within reasonable limits. A short period of intense, vigorous exercise is better than a long period of mild exercise.

Many women wrongly object to their doing exercise when they contend, “I don’t want large muscles. I don’t want to look like a man.” Women generally cannot develop large muscles under any circumstances. Only those persons who have long muscle bellies and short tendon attachments can build large muscles. Women generally do not have these. Women are limited in muscular size and strength by their hormones.

To lose weight, do as little aerobic exercises as you can. Aerobic exercises (with oxygen), do not help you to lose weight. Aerobic exercise only helps you gain endurance and will take you forever to burn up your fat. Aerobic exercises are light exercises such as: long distance cycling, long distance rowing, long distance running, long distance swimming, ballroom dancing, tap dancing, walking, jogging, cross-country skiing, calisthenics, typing, etc..

To lose weight and fat, do anaerobic exercises (not using oxygen, without oxygen). Anaerobic exercises are sprinting, running up stairs rapidly, jumping high, long and vertically with intensity, rapid cycling, rapid rowing, rapid swimming, weight throwing, weight lifting with low repetitions, hand balancing, gymnastics, chins, parallel bar dips, roman rings, rope climbing, tubing, bands, pulleys, wrestling and martial arts.

Anaerobic exercises are intense exercises that can be tolerated for only a few moments. They are short bursts of all out activities. They are activities using muscle groups at high intensities that exceed the body’s capacity to use oxygen to supply energy. They create an oxygen debt by using energy produced without oxygen. They are activities in which oxygen demands of muscles are so high that they rely upon an internal metabolic process for oxygen.

It is essential that correct eating patterns be learned to succeed with a weight loss program. You need eating habits with which you can live for the rest of your life, not just for the time you are trying to lose weight.

Do not do any of the following: overeat, eat foods cooked too much, eat unnatural foods, eat artificial foods, eat adulterated foods and eat foods with additives, chemicals and other synthetic products.

Do not use additives. Flavor enhancing additives can irritate your digestive system or overstimulate other organs. Avoid the harmful additives: sugar, salt, pepper, spices, condiments, ketchup, mayonnaise, butter, cream, dressings and toppings.

Do none of these nutritional malpractices: drink alcoholic beverages, drink coffee, tea, soda, or soups, eat cake, candy, ice cream, canned foods, bread, smoke tobacco or take drugs. Understanding the good and bad qualities of your food sources, will help you make healthier food selections.

To lose weight, you must do all you can of the following: eat and drink properly, intense, progressive, resistance exercise, be free of toxins, fast whenever ill, sleep, rest, meditate, avoid incorrect overindulgence in sex, sunbathe, air bathe, maintain emotional poise, be aware and correct all physical, mental and spiritual dysfunctions.

Incorrect overindulgence in sex with resultant loss of nutrients in men’s and women’s ejaculations, causes fat gain and loss of muscle. With ejaculation, nutrients designed for other vital organs, are sidetracked into the production of reproductive materials. This depletion results in insufficient nutrients being supplied to the various biological systems and vital organs. Prize fighters, racehorses and other athletes who want to win, abstain from sex before a contest.

Sunbathe and air bathe in the nude, each bodily part, daily. Sunlight and fresh air aid the nutritive processes of the body. They increase the blood supply to the muscles. They help burn up fat and develop muscles. They help lose weight. Sunlight helps the obese to lose weight. F. Ellinger writes that experimental animals that receive sunlight treatments lose weight, as compared to animals given the same diet but not the sunlight treatment. R. D. Gabovich writes that sunlight stimulates the thyroid gland to increase hormone production. Dr. Zane R. Kime writes, “Stimulation of the thyroid gland (by sunlight) increases the body’s basal metabolism rate, burning up more energy or calories.''

I. Bing writes that when sunlight strikes the skin, it also increases the tone of the muscles, under the exposed skin. This in turn, burns more calories and would increase weight loss.

Lose weight and raise your metabolism while you sleep. Sleep completely nude. Do not wear any clothes, undergarments, pajamas, etc.. Do not cover yourself with sheets, blankets, covers, etc.. Keep the windows open as wide as possible, to let in the fresh air and let out the impure air. When you are completely nude and uncovered in the fresh air, you will raise your metabolism much greater than if you were to take the thyroid hormone, thyroxine to raise your metabolism. You will lose all the weight you want, develop better skin and muscle tone, also, by this method.

Sleep, meditate and close your eyes, all you can. Fat is lost and muscles are built while sleeping, meditating and closing your eyes. Fat is not lost and muscles are not built during periods of exercise. Closing your eyes, rests your brain and mind. An electric rhythm starts as soon as the eyes close and ceases immediately when they open. This rhythm serves to clear “negative charges” from the brain. Activity of the eyes prevents recuperation from occurring. Closing your eyes is nature’s great restorative healing process.

Why do you become fat? Emotional reasons. Either you are frustrated, bored, angry, have anxiety complexes, lonely or depressed and you try to fill a vacuum, so you start to eat. You don’t eat out of hunger. You eat because you want to nurture yourself. You must learn to eat correctly, to satisfy hunger and to provide needed nutrients.

Maintain emotional stability. Correct your worries, fears, griefs, anxieties, jealousies, stresses, frustrations, nervousness, neurosis, psychosis, depression, phobias and compulsions. Negative emotions drain your energies and cause a gain of fat weight.

Don’t weigh yourself daily. Rely, instead, on how your clothes fit, and how your body feels. Your goal is not a number; it is to look and feel healthy and attractive. Your eyes (and clothes) are all you need to know whether you have reached that goal.

Look at every part of your body in the mirror, daily in the nude, to see your defects and where you need to lose weight. Those overweight parts of your body are the areas where you should lose your weight. Look at yourself. Remove all of your clothing, stand in front of a full-length mirror and take a good look at yourself. Be your own judge. If you see rolls, ripples or dimples, it’s probably time to lose some weight. Be objective. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror-change it. The evidence increasingly shows that changing habits-eating less, exercising more-may be more important than simply losing pounds. Everybody can lose all the weight they want, in any parts of their bodies, that they so choose. Whether you want to lose 5 or 100 or more pounds, you can! If you lose just one pound per week, in one year, you will lose 52 pounds!

Don’t wait until tomorrow. Start NOW to lose all the weight you want to, by following the program indicated herein. Become more handsome, beautiful and healthier, NOW! LOSE ALL THE WEIGHT YOU WANT and KEEP IT OFF ALWAYS … EVERYBODY CAN!

Alternative Healing What Nobody Understands

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:36:54 -0800

Natural Hygiene Practitioners, as indicated by their writings and actions, do not understand Natural Hygiene. As the evidence indicated herein will show, those Natural Hygiene Practitioners whom we all know or those about whom we read or hear, do not know, understand or practice Natural Hygiene.

There will not be any attempt herein, to embarrass anyone. They will be described by their own words or by their obituaries. There are others about whom there will be no attempt to embarrass or describe herein because information about them is confidential and will be kept confidential.

Cited and described herein, in their misunderstanding of Natural Hygiene, in alphabetical order are Drs. Burton, Cinque, Cridland, Cursio, Evans, Fuhrman, Goldhammer, Gross, Mega, Scott, Shelton and Telmar, and the lay people, Hannah Allen, R.J. Cheatham, Joy Gross, James Lennon, Bernarr McFadden and Nathan Pritikin.

Quoted herein in a correct understanding of Natural Hygiene are Drs. Dewey, Nichols, Shelton and Vetrano and lay people, Hereward Carrington, Frieda Ireland and Louise Mollot.

In Natural Hygiene, we know the following:

All disease is self-limited. If the disease is suppressed by whatever means, one either accomodates to it or dies.

No drug is ever indicated for the treatment of any pain, discomfort or illness. Drugs kill!

Dr. Viviana V. Vetrano, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, writes, “Drugs may appear negligible risks at the moment but drugs build chronic and irreversible problems."…“The use of a drug is never ‘proper’ to the body.”

“Drugs only suppress the body’s efforts at healing itself and maintaining its normal condition."…“Drugs must be eliminated from the body since they can’t be metabolized, thus causing an expenditure of vitality. Drugs damage every part of the body with which they come in contact.”

Dr. Herbert Shelton, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, wrote, “Drugs annul bodily functions and impair its structures, suppressing the power to feel, or its awareness of its diseased condition and that diverts the organic attention from the normal processes of life to the task of expelling the chemical. Drugs must always and inevitably tend in the direction of death.”

Nothing in the world has the power to restore health but the affected organism itself."…“There is no recovery where cause is not removed."…“Drugs and surgical cures remove effects; cause is ignored. With surgery, pathological products and affected organs are removed instead of cause.”

“Neither possession nor restoration of health can flow from any extraneous chemical agency, but always and inflexibly comes from the maintenance and restoration of the necessary conditions, and these are connected with normal elements of living.”

“Recuperation and recovery are never the results of medicine or of the cause of disease, but are always the results of the operations of the processes of life and the conditions that maintain health. Drugs serve only to occasion morbid changes in the functions and structures of the body and this can never result in health. To produce disease is not to restore health. To damage the structures and impair the functions of the organism does not restore structural integrity and functional efficiency.”

“We should not alleviate or suppress the symptoms of disease. When a remedy is used, the body’s energy is redirected toward dealing with the new problem, the remedy, and away from the original problem, the toxins that prompted the body to institute the disease process. If our bodies have accumulated toxins that must be gotten rid of, we often must suffer to some extent while the body purifies itself.”

“Disease does not produce any radical change in the living organism, so that what it does not need and cannot use in a state of health, it does not need and cannot use, in a state of illness. In sickness the powers of life are impaired, not radically altered.”

“We should do nothing to a sick person that we would not do to a healthy one. Treat the ailing individual with a gentleness to match his or her lack of vigor. The weaker the patient, the greater the need to do nothing.”

“The true nature of disease - that it itself is a curing process - and, as such, cannot possibly be cured!"…“Disease is vital action in relation to things abnormal… Health is vital action in relation to things normal.”

Hereward Carrington wrote, “For what are drugs supposed to do? Obviously, to ‘cure’ the disease: with that object they are administered, and for that reason they are taken. But this whole theory is based upon the idea that a disease is a thing that can be attacked, or driven out, or suppressed or subdued, or in some way affected by the drug; but the disease is in reality not an entity at all; that it is not, in fact, what we must fight or combat, but that it is ITSELF the process of purification-of ‘getting well’.”

“The medication is far worse than the original malady! This is, as a matter of fact, actually the case. For, whereas the diseased condition is, in itself, a simple condition - an attempt at cure - the latter is a deep-seated, positive and dangerous entity, a poison or substance calling for active and positive hygienic treatment, in order to remove it and effect a cure.”

“Nature does not cure in that way. Her efforts at cure are not chemical changes, but vital tendency. The method of cure adopted by Nature is one and constant - it is a vital process \ as distinct from a chemical one.”

“Drugs as commonly administered, tend to suppress symptoms rather than to remove the causes. If any set of symptoms arises, a drug is administered, and the symptoms subside - and the drug is administered with the precise and definite object in view of causing such cessation of symptoms. It is, in fact, commonly supposed to be the real ‘cure’. But a real cure is based upon altogether different principles. It should be remembered that symptoms are SUCH only, and are not the real disease - the cause - which must itself be removed, if any true cure is to follow.”

“Suppression of symptoms, such as that afforded by drugs, is by no means a true cure, since the cause is not removed; the symptoms are not the disease, but the evidences of such, and should not be removed or suppressed, so can only encourage the faith of the patient in spurious ‘cures’ and divert his mind from all true methods of regaining his health.”

Louise Mollot writes, “Drugs drain the Vital Life Force. Drugs actually damage cells, especially nerves, so that their function is decreased. The Vital Force can never be regained, yet the causes of the diseases have never been removed, therefore remain to cause the symptoms to continue. By suppressing the symptoms, we counter the body’s efforts to discharge the disease-producing toxins.”

In Chet Day’s “Health and Beyond”, the March 1, 1995 issue, Dr. Ralph Cinque, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, incorrectly writes that giving drugs to patients is proper.

Dr. Cinque is the President of the International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists. Dr. Cinque writes that “I do believe that sometimes there may be a lesser evil in taking a drug than enduring a problem. An example would be antibiotics."…“But there is such a thing as a fulminating infection that is spiraling out of control and overwhelming the individual. Medical intervention is justified in such cases.” …“An abscess needs to be opened and drained. A skin cancer should be excised. A person with pernicious anemia may need to be injected with vitamin B12. Serious cases of asthma may require emergency medical treatment. There are instances when people genuinely need antibiotics."…“The body may have a tumorous obstruction that it cannot resolve itself and surgery is indicated. The body may have an irreversible deficiency of a natural secretion, such as insulin in juvenile diabetes, and therefore hormone replacement is indicated.”

Dr. Ronald Cridland, M.D., Natural Hygiene Practitioner, has written a new introduction to Dr. Shelton’s “Natural Hygiene: The Pristine Way of Life”. In it, he addresses some of the exceptions in which medical intervention may be warranted. Dr. Cridland writes that “Sometimes medication is useful when the stress and enervation of the symptom would be more harmful to the patient than the potential stress from side effects of the medication.” “Contagion can exist among susceptible individuals if they are exposed to large enough quantities of microorganisms.” He writes that when the body is “unable to overcome cancer”, then we should treat the cancer with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy “to buy the body a bit of time to heal.” He writes that people who have been injured should not fast because healing is slower during a fast. He writes of his consulting with “a 57 year old carpenter with a 15 month history of evening fevers and sweats” and that “there was no evidence that delaying the antibiotic treatment had any detrimental effects.” This carpenter was referred by him to a cardiologist who treated the carpenter with a four week course of antibiotics. He writes that “there are times when the stresses of the symptoms are worse, perhaps, than the stresses of the side effects of the treatment. There are situations, medically and surgically, where intervention will be in the patient’s best interest, perhaps to reduce symptoms that are interfering with the healing process. For example, somebody breaks a leg, and they can’t sleep because of the pain, and they can’t relax because of the pain. If they are finding the pain so stressful that it is interfering with their ability to heal, a painkiller-for a short period of time, with no delusion that it is healing them-would enable them to relax and sleep so that they could heal better.”

Dr. Alan Goldhammer, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, writes that “there are situations that arise that make the use of drugs a consideration. Thyroid and insulin replacement therapy are well known examples”…“there are situations where antibiotic therapy may be advisable.” He writes that if people are to get off their medication, M.D.s “are in a good position to evaluate the appropriateness of various medical treatments.”

Dr. Alan M. Immerman, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, writes that drugs cure “pneumonia and other infections."…“Infections are sometimes so severe that antibiotics are needed."…“There are cases when drugs are useful."…“take drugs when the intensity of the cleansing process is too great. For instance, a child with severe diarrhea lasting for more than two days can become dehydrated and die without drugs. An elderly patient with a severe cough from pneumonia could also die without drugs.”

Dr. Ralph Cinque considers Dr. Alec Burton, the greatest living Natural Hygiene Practitioner. Dr. Burton writes that if a person has remedial surgery, that person is forced to take a course of antibiotics afterwards. Dr. Burton writes that “any means that are available that are not going to be too threatening or invasive are probably legitimate to relieve the pain.” Dr. Burton writes that in order to relieve the patient’s pain, you can use manipulation, hot and cold packs or gentle stroking.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Natural Hygiene Practitioner, prescribes Valium and other drugs for his patients. He writes that when he fasts patients who have been taking drugs, he continues the patients on drugs. He progressively lowers the amount of drugs they take, as the patient continues to fast.

Dr. Doug Evans, Natural Hygiene Practitioner writes that “Antiarrhythmic drugs such as Quinidine are usually effective” in tachycardia [rapid heart action]. He writes that oxygen is effective in saving a patient’s life who has a history of severe tachycardia and who has tachycardia during a fast.

James Michael Lennon, Executive Director of the American Natural Hygiene Society, writes that Natural Hygiene Doctors use non-hygienic therapy “to give temporary relief from pain or other suffering.”

The International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists has indicated in their “Standards of Practice” that “medication in some conditions, and other techniques of emergency medicine may be necessary.”

Joy Gross, Natural Hygiene writer, director of the famous fasting institution, Pawling Health Manor in N.Y., and ex-wife of the late Dr. Robert Gross, had an accident and writes that she had to take medication to get emergency relief. Her emergency relief was intravenous feeding, blood transfusion, catheter and drugs.

Nobody lives and thinks correctly. Everyone becomes ill in some form or other, during their lives. The fatal crime that those who die prematurely commit, is to do the wrong thing when they become ill. Natural Hygiene Practitioners do the wrong things for themselves, their families and loved ones and/or for their patients, when they become ill.

The late Dr. Herbert Shelton, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, neglected to take care of himself healthfully, by his lifestyle, by constantly writing and sleeping very little. He enervated himself severely thereby and developed and suffered with and grew progressively worse with Parkinson’s Disease for many, many years. He did not know how to help his Parkinson’s Disease. He had no relief of his Parkinsonian symptoms or pathology until he died of such.

The late Dr. Christopher Gian-Cursio, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, corrected his cardiac valvular defects after some long fasts, when he was younger. He was harassed for many years by law enforcement authorities for his Natural Hygienic practices helping patients throughout the U.S.. The prosecutors charged him with the illegal practice of medicine. His lifestyle and constant air travel to fly to his lectures and patients to pay for his exorbitant legal fees, severely enervated him. He became ill and neglected to take care of his health problems. He died at age 75, of congestive heart failure with concomitant multiple varicose ulcers on both legs.

The late Dr. Robert Gross, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, died after receiving chemotherapy and radiation for his pancreatic cancer and brain cancer.

The late Dr. John J. Mega, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, died after receiving surgery and chemotherapy for his stomach cancer.

The late Dr. Marvin Telmar, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, died after not knowing how to help his bronchial pneumonia and meningitis.

The late Hannah Allen, who wrote some great natural hygienic literature, contended that “it is indisputable that sometimes they [drugs] are necessary and the ’lesser evil.’…“sometimes even antibiotics can be the ’lesser evil’.”

Frieda Ireland writes that Hannah Allen developed cancer and spent a whole summer at Dr. Scott’s fasting institution with no help for her cancer. Allen arrived home in September. Allen opted for chemotherapy to “buy the body a bit of time to heal.” The chemotherapy damaged Allen’s brain so much that her “bit of time to heal” was spent in a 24-hour care nursing facility for the last 6 or 7 months before she died.

R.J. Cheatham, director of the famous fasting institution, Shangri La in Florida, died after taking chemotherapy for his cancer of the colon.

Nathan Pritikin, director of the Pritikin Institute, a natural health rehabilitation center, died after committing suicide. He was despondent because he did not know how to help his Chronic Leukemia. He had been taking chemotherapy for his Leukemia, for many years.

Bernarr McFadden, founder of the physical culture movement, died in a hospital, after undergoing treatment with drugs.

If Natural Hygiene Practitioners advise their unknowledgeable patients incorrectly, this could be dangerous.

The danger is that some patients who consult with Natural Hygiene Practitioners will unfortunately consent to have destructive drugs, surgery, etc. inflicted upon them, when they are in desperate circumstances.

Natural Hygiene always works! If a patient who is under Natural Hygiene care does not respond satisfactorily to Natural Hygiene, then the Natural Hygiene Practitioner and/or the patient should learn more about Natural Hygiene and not irrationally use non-Natural Hygienic procedures.

I have practiced Natural Hygiene for over 40 years. I have cared for tens of thousands of patients with Natural Hygiene and fasting. These patients had all kinds of so called “incurable” conditions and all of these patients responded satisfactorily to Natural Hygiene exclusively. I never had to suggest to any of these patients, that they should take drugs, surgery or any other non- Natural Hygienic treatments.

I am no more intelligent nor better than anyone else in the Natural Hygiene movement. The reason I always succeeded in helping patients with Natural Hygiene, was that I knew and still know, that Natural Hygiene always works, and therefore employed Natural Hygiene exclusively!

If any Natural Hygiene Practitioners choose to challenge me or want my aid to help them with their patients, using Natural Hygiene exclusively, then these Natural Hygiene Practitioners can contact me. I will explain, show and demonstrate to them that Natural Hygiene will always work in helping their patients.

Most Natural Hygiene Practitioners and most of those in the Natural Hygiene movement wrongly believe that all there is to Natural Hygiene is a vegetarian diet and fasting.

If someone, who was a stranger to Natural Hygiene, was to visit a Natural Hygiene convention, seminar or meeting, that stranger would get disenchanted with Natural Hygiene and its advocates. That stranger would view, meet and interact with some of the unhealthiest looking people in the world. If a stranger were to view, meet and interact with the personal families of Natural Hygiene Practitioners, that stranger would see very unhealthy people. That stranger would rightfully think and rightfully conclude that, if Natural Hygiene works, why do these Natural Hygienists appear to be so unhealthy.

These unhealthy looking Natural Hygienists appear to be so unhealthy because they do not understand Natural Hygiene. They, therefore, live unhealthfully which causes their unhealthful appearance.

Natural Hygiene consists of correct thinking and correct living. Natural Hygienists should sleep all they can, meditate, maintain emotional poise, love, forgive and tolerate all other living beings, harm no other living beings, be aware, sunbathe, airbathe, exercise vigorously and regularly, avoid incorrect overindulgence in sex, be free of toxins, eat natural, unprocessed foods, raw or cooked as little as possible, to minimize digestive stress and conserve digestive energy, fast whenever ill and drink distilled water and to also correct all physical, mental and spiritual dysfunctions.

Dr. Cinque, in “Health and Beyond”, incorrectly writes that Dr. Alec Burton’s use of sunscreen when Dr. Burton is exposed to the Australia sunshine, is the right procedure.

If Drs. Burton and Cinque choose to expose their nude skins to the sunshine, all they need do is pay attention to their bodies. Our bodies are always talking to us and we must learn to listen. If the sunshine is going to be harmful to us, our bodies will feel uncomfortable in the sunshine. This will force us to withdraw our bodies from the sunshine before the sunshine can injure us.

Anything that blocks sunshine from penetrating the skin will reduce the amount of vitamin D that the body makes.

Sunscreen may actually increase the risk of cancer, so proposed California researchers in a paper published in January, 1993, in the Annals of Epidemiology. The researchers contended that UVB- blocking sunscreens had contributed to increasing skin-cancer rates, by disabling the body’s natural alarm mechanism: sunburn. The researchers also posited that because UVB rays are the main source of vitamin D, and because vitamin D may inhibit the progression of melanoma, and because sunscreens block UVB rays- sunscreens may promote vitamin D deficiencies and cause melanomas. [UVB is the shorter wavelength of ultraviolet light that damages the skin. UVA is the longer of the two types of ultraviolet light that reaches the earth. UVA is responsible for tanning.]

Dr. Ralph Cinque, in “Health and Beyond” incorrectly writes that keeping his eyes closed while fasting would be torture to him. Dr. Cinque favors, during fasting, diversionary activities, such as reading, conversing and listening to music.

Dr. D.J. Scott, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, writes that he lets his patients, while they are fasting, read books and listen to music or the radio. This is incorrect procedure.

Dr. Robert Sniadach, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, in “Health and Beyond”, incorrectly writes that when people fast, they can take “very mild, short walks and/or movements, just to keep lymphatic fluid moving, to keep the vascular system working into areas where blood or lymphatic fluid may be pooling and somewhat stagnant."…“I think there’s definitely room for mild activity.”

If you are sick, to get well, close your eyes and keep them closed, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, i.e. every moment you can!

Closing the eyes rests the brain and mind. An electric rhythm starts as soon as the eyes are closed and ceases immediately when they are opened. This rhythm serves to clear “negative charges” from the brain. Activity of the eyes prevents recuperation from occurring.

When your eyes are closed and you are at complete rest, bodily energies rejuvenate, cells replenish, tissues repair and organs refresh themselves and are made ready for renewed activity.

When you are sick, you are greatly devitalized and enervated from overactivity, excesses, stimulation and emotional excitement. Close your eyes and keep them closed, to completely rest every part of your body.

Animals and babies instinctively know they must close their eyes to feel better.

The most common, difficult to manage diseases, are often related to a sleep deficiency. If you are sick or tired, you have a sleep deficiency. Healing takes place when you are asleep or your eyes are closed. If you are sick, you have a deficiency of healing, therefore, a deficiency of sleep.

The body makes the healing of a bone a priority, as opposed to doing other things that are not quite as important. With additional sleep, and/or closing your eyes, the healing process will be better and faster. If you are unwell because of an injury, the more sleep and/or closing your eyes, the quicker you will heal. It does not matter what your health problem is or what causes it, whether it is because of lifestyle abuse or external trauma. You need more sleep and/or closing your eyes. That is the most important thing you can do to make you well.

Vital energy is produced by the blessed elixir of sleep and/or closing your eyes. Sleep and/or closing your eyes are nature’s great restorative healing processes.

Vital energy is used up by all the activities of life. Vital energy is used up by physical activity, by talking, by digestion, by emotions, by thinking, by seeing, by hearing, by smelling and by sex.

After activity, the brain grows weary and the physical demand for sleep and/or closing the eyes is great. Nerve cell fatigue or exhaustion is deep seated and much time is required to recover. It is the lowering of vital energy in the nerve cells which leads to physical and mental trouble. Carried to an extreme, it leads to a “nervous breakdown”. Close your eyes to replenish your nerve cells and your nerves will get better and feel better.

The actual storing up of the energy reserves or the energy sources of the body takes place during rest. Activity expends and rest restores the bodily resources. The more the body is stimulated, the sooner it completely collapses. The weaker the body, the less it is able to withstand the action of stimulants. The weaker the body, the greater the necessity of “doing nothing” intelligently, just closing your eyes.

When you close your eyes and pain, discomfort or depression prevents you from sleeping, keep your eyes closed, until the pain, discomfort or depression leaves. Concentrate, meditate, feel, think on the pain, discomfort or depression as intensely as you can. As long as you continue to do this, you will awaken just as refreshed as if you slept for that same period of time as when your eyes were closed.

Your brain and body are always talking to you and you must learn to listen and do what they tell you to do. To better listen to your brain and body, you can concentrate best, if you keep your eyes closed.

To heal yourself of disease, you should rest your brain and body, by keeping your eyes closed. Every activity of your eyes depletes your vitality and inhibits restoration of your health.

In every moment of your 24 hours, keep your eyes closed, just like dogs, cats and other pets do, and open your eyes only to satisfy your needs, whether your needs be biological, physical, social, economic or spiritual.

When you are sick, lie down, keep your body inactive, keep your eyes closed and concentrate, meditate, think on, keep your mind on your pain and discomfort, until your pain and distress completely disappear.

All fasting doctors and practitioners who personally fast their own bodies, who supervise patients who fast and all people who fast themselves, all make the same mistake. They do not keep their eyes closed every moment of the 24 hours, every day that they fast.

Many of our fasting doctors and practitioners and authorities have died prematurely because they did not know how to properly fast. They fasted and expended vital nerve energy unnecessarily by keeping their eyes open and were unnecessarily active during their respective fasts.

Many of these fasting doctors and practitioners wrote and lectured eloquently about fasting, but they never really understood why, when and how to apply fasting. George Bernard Shaw wrote: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”

The purpose of a fast is to completely rest the body, not to just eliminate toxins nor to just rest the digestive tract. The purpose of fasting is to conserve vital energy and to replenish vital energy. Every moment you fast and that you simultaneously open your eyes, you are preventing yourself from getting healed as rapidly and as well as possible. You are wasting vital energy when you open your eyes. Every bit of vital energy is needed by sick persons to recover their health.

During a fast, you must have total rest. You can only accomplish total rest by keeping your eyes closed.

Dr. Herbert Shelton wrote that the person who fasts should “rest-mentally, sensorially and physically, while he is resting physiologically.”

“Nature prostrates the patient."…“She preserves energy by limiting its dissipation. The energy thus saved is available for use in the temporarily more important work of healing. If we are wise we will take our cue from nature and conserve our energies, while fasting, by curbing their expenditures. I favor the plan of putting the patient to bed. I am sure that better and quicker results are thus obtained. Nature puts her hibernating animal to bed and sleep.”

“Observations made during the fasts of Succi and others show that the body wastes less rapidly when the patient is kept warm and at rest. Rest conserves the body’s energies and substances and hastens the healing. I agree with Purinton, who says in his “Philosophy of Fasting’, ‘Not an ounce of energy shall be dissipated during the extreme fast. This means loafing, resting, lazying along and not caring.’ The best place for the faster is in bed. Talking, laughing, listening to the radio and viewing and listening to television prevent genuine rest."…“A newspaper or a novel may be disturbing, exciting or depressing.”

“It is quite obvious that, given the same amount of nutritive reserve, the active individual will consume his internal food stores sooner than the resting individual. For this reason, if no other, the fasting patient who rests while fasting will emerge from the fast in better condition than the faster who is active during this period. At the same time, if a prolonged fast is essential, rest will enable the patient to conserve his reserves to the utmost and thus lengthen the period over which he can safely fast."…“The less physically active organism expends less of its reserves, not alone due to reduced physical work, but also, due to decreased physiological activity.”

“The more rest the sick organism receives, the more rapidly is good health restored. Rest (physical, mental and physiological) is equally important and beneficial during a fast.”

“Even reading, writing, talking, listening to the radio and similar forms of activity should be avoided as much as possible.”

“A period of rest enables an overworked body to perform work that activity prevents it from doing."…“Talking, gum chewing, reading and writing constitute drains upon the enervated and fasting organisms and should be avoided. Minimum amounts of talking, reading and writing should be indulged.

Dr. T.L. Nichols, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, wrote, “for every disease of every organ of the body, the first condition is rest- rest for stomach, rest for brain.”

Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey, Natural Hygiene Practitioner, wrote of fasting as the “rest cure”, and emphasized the urgent necessity of rest in all acute and chronic diseases.

Lie down and close your eyes, every time you can. It is the most important thing you can do to get well and stay well!

Sick or well, if you use Natural Hygiene exclusively, you will always improve your health.

Natural Hygiene always works!