Unlimited Power - Chapter 10

 

Chapter 10  - Energy: The Fuel Of Excellence

 

You can change your internal representations all day long, but if your biochemistry is messed up, it's going to make the brain create distorted representations. It's going to throw off your whole system.

Much of what I will say in this chapter will challenge things you've always believed.

I challenge you to apply the SIX PRINCIPLES in this chapter for the next ten to thirty days and judge their validity by the results they produce in your body rather than by what you may have been educated to believe.

They are derived from the science of health called Natural Hygiene, and has been around for around 100 years.

It is also the foundation of Harvey and Marilyn Diamond's book Flt for Life.

FIRST KEY TO LIVING HEALTH - THE POWER OF BREATH

The foundation of health is a healthy bloodstream, the system that transports oxygen and nutrients to all the cells of your body.

If you have a healthy circulation system, you're going to have a long, healthy life.

That environment is the bloodstream.

What is the control button for that system? 

Breathing. 

It's the way you fully oxygenate the body and thus stimulate the electrical process of each and every cell.

If you get nothing else from this chapter but an understanding of the importance of deep breathing, you could dramatically increase the level of your body's health. 

Dr. Otto Warburg demonstrated that he was able to turn normal, healthy cells into malignant cells simply by lowering the amount of oxygen available to them.

Researchers believe that lack of oxygen seems to play a major role in causing cells to become malignant or cancerous. It certainly affects the quality of life of the cells.

Let me share with you the most effective way to breathe in order to cleanse your system.

You should breathe in this ratio: inhale one count, hold four counts, exhale two counts.

Why exhale for twice as long as you inhale? That's when you eliminate toxins via your lymphatic system.

Why hold four times as long?

That's how you can fully oxygenate the blood and activate your lymphatic system.

The other essential component of healthy overall breathing is daily aerobic exercise ("aerobic" literally means "to exercise with air")-trampolining is one of the best all-weather aerobic exercises.

THE SECOND KEY TO LIVING HEALTH- THE PRINCIPLE OF EATING WATER-RICH FOOD

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water.

Eighty percent of your body is made up of water.

What do you think a large percentage of your diet should contain?

You need to make certain that seventy percent of your diet is made up of foods that are rich in water.

That means fresh fruits or vegetables, or their juices freshly squeezed.

How can you make sure that seventy percent of your diet consists of water-content foods?

It's actually very simple.

Just be certain from now on to have a big salad with each meal.

Make fruit the snack you reach for instead of a candy bar.

THE THIRD KEY TO LIVING HEALTH - THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE FOOD COMBINING

Here's a very simple way to think about it.

Eat only one condensed food at a meal.

What's a condensed food?

It's any food that's not rich in water.

Make sure you don't eat starchy carbohydrates and protein at the same meal.

Again, you can use Fit for Life as a guide to simple and sensible food combining

 THE FOURTH KEY TO LIVING HEALTH - THE LAW OF CONTROLLED CONSUMPTION

Want to learn how to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you'll be around long enough to eat a lot.

Dr. Ray Walford (UCLA researcher): "Undernutrition is thus far the only method we know of that consistently retards the aging process and extends the maximum life span of warm-blooded animals."

THE FIFTH KEY TO LIVING HEALTH - THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE FRUIT CONSUMPTION

Fruit is the most perfect food. It takes the least amount of energy to digest and gives your body the most in return. The only food your brain can work on is glucose: Fruit is primarily fructose (which can be easily converted into glucose), and it's most often 90-95% water. That means it's cleansing and nurturing at the same time.

The only problem with fruit is that most people don't know how to eat it in a way that allows the body effectively to use its nutrients.

YOU MUST ALWAYS EAT FRUIT ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

Why?

The reason is that fruit is not primarily digested in the stomach. It digests in the small intestine. 

Fruit is designed to go right through the stomach in a few minutes and into the intestines, where it releases its sugars.

But if there is meat or potatoes or starch in the stomach, the fruit gets trapped there and begins to ferment.

The best kind of fruit is fresh fruit or freshly squeezed fruit juice.

When you wake up, and for as long into the day as is comfortably possible, eat nothing but fresh fruit or freshly squeezed fruit juice.

Keep this commitment until at least twelve noon each day.

Try it for the next ten days and see for yourself

SIXTH KEY TO LIVING HEALTH- THE PROTEIN MYTH

When do you think people are most in need of protein? Probably when they're infants. Mother Nature has provided a food, mother's milk, that supplies the infant with everything it needs. Guess how much of mother's milk is protein-2.38% at birth and reduces to 1.2-1.6% protein in six months! That's all!

One of the by-products of protein metabolism is ammonia.

Let me mention two points.

First, meat contains high levels of uric acid. People with leukemia are usually found to have very high levels of uric acid in their bloodstream. The average piece of meat has 14 grams of uric acid. Your body can only eliminate about 8 grams of uric acid in a day.

In addition, do you know what gives meat its taste? Uric acid, from that now-dead animal you're consuming. If you doubt this, try eating kosher-style meat before it's spiced. As the blood is drained out, so is most of the uric acid. Meat without uric acid has no flavor. Is that what you want to put in your body, the acid normally eliminated in the urine of an animal?

If you absolutely must eat meat, you should get it from a source that guarantees it's pasture grazed, that is, a source that guarantees it doesn't have growth hormones or DES.

Second, drastically cut your intake.

Make your new maximum one serving of meat per day.

Are dairy products any better? In some ways, they're even worse. 

Powerful growth hormones in cow’s milk are designed to raise a calf from 90 pounds at birth to a thousand pounds at physical maturity two years later.

Researchers say if you want allergies, drink milk. If you want a clogged system, drink milk. The reason, according to Dr. William Ellis, is that few adults can properly metabolize the protein casein in cow's milk.

And if you're concerned about calcium, Dr. Ellis suggests eating plenty of green vegetables, sesame kinds of butter or nuts-all of which are extremely rich in calcium and easy for the body to use. And remember that it takes four to five quarts of milk to make one pound of cheese. If you must eat cheese, cut up a small amount in a big salad.

One warning:

if you start breathing effectively in a way that stimulates your lymph system and you begin to combine your food correctly and eat 70% water-content foods, you may start cleaning out the garbage that's been piling up in your system for years, and it may use its newfound energy to do it as fast as it can.

So you might suddenly start sneezing up excess mucus.

Does that mean you caught a cold? No, you ate the "cold" you've been creating by years of awful eating habits.

Your body may now have the energy to use your eliminative organs to rid itself of excess waste products formerly stored in the tissues and bloodstream.

Remember, the quality of our physiology affects our perceptions and behaviors.

Take a moment and imagine yourself a month from now having actually followed the principles and concepts we've talked about.

See the person you will be after having changed your biochemistry by eating and breathing effectively.

What if you felt as if you were living health-and you had energy you never dreamed was possible? If you look at that person and like what you see, then everything I'm offering you is easily within your grasp!

It only takes a little discipline-not too much, because once you break your old habits, you'll never go back. For every disciplined effort, there's a multiple reward.