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1. Welcome to Issue #130 (January 16, 2004) of MIND CHATTER
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2. If you would like to unsubscribe, you can manage your account via the links at the beginning and end of the newsletter. (But please don't. We like you and we want you to stay.)
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3. In This Issue:
* MindQuotes
* What is Reality (and why should you care)?
by Bill Harris, Director
* Glowing Testimonial of the Month
* BOOK REVIEW
By Marc Gilson
Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program
150 Delicious Grain-Free Recipes & Proven Metabolic
Type Plan to Prevent Disease, Optimize Weight and Live Longer
By Dr Joseph Mercola
* Important Announcements
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4. MIND CHATTER contains articles about:
*How you create your life--and how you can stop unconsciously
creating experiences and outcomes you do not want, and instead begin
to create exactly what you do want
*Personal and spiritual growth in general
*Meditation (high and low-tech)
*Recovery from emotional trauma
*Pretty much any other subject I get excited about and want to write
about. After all, it's my company and my newsletter, and I can do
whatever I want with it. So there.
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5. Mind Quotes
"People do not lack strength, they lack will."
- Victor Hugo
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving
"You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."
- Charles Buxton
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
-Rodin
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They
won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats"
- Bertie C.Forbes
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6. Here's a very valuable free gift for every Mind Chatter subscriber:
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This telephone seminar is FREE.
Gay and Kathlyn and I have become very good friends over the last year, and because their new book, Lasting Love (Rodale Publishers), is hitting the bookstores this month, I convinced Gay to do a free tele-seminar for Mind Chatter
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7. Feature Article
What is Reality (and why should you care)?
by Bill Harris, Director
I've just begun the second of my three 12-lesson telecourses, this month. On Tuesday night, we'll have our second lesson. This second telecourse is called The Accelerated Change Maximizer, and it's about two closely related subjects: 1)
change, what it is, why it happens, how it happens, and how to deal with it, and 2) the general topic of metaphysics, what most people would call the spiritual realm.
Because I've been preparing for the lessons in this course, I've been thinking a lot about these topics, and I'd like to share some of my thoughts with you.
By the way, I do urge you to take the online version of these three telecourses, and you can listen to a free preview lesson at:
http://www.centerpointe.com/life/online/preview
A few of the fundamental questions I've been thinking about as I've been preparing for The Accelerated Change Maximizer are: What is reality? What's it all about? Why are we here? These are questions many people fail to consider anymore in
this age of quantum mechanics, computers, and high-tech gadgets. I guess people either think they know, or they think the questions have become irrelevant.
Personally, I think these are amazing, and even awe-inspiring, questions.
Alan Watts used to say that a philosopher--the kind of person who would consider such questions--is a kind of intellectual yokel who is amazed by things other people take for granted. "What is reality?" the philosopher asks, while the
"normal" person says, "Beats me. Who cares? Let's go do something." To the philosopher, this question continues to evoke awe and wonder, but most people brush it aside as irrelevant.
I'm asking this question, though, not to have my head in the clouds or to discover how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but rather for very practical reasons. If there is an assumed, shared answer to this question, that
underlies our way of living and seeing things--even though we may not be able to articulate it--and this answer is steering us into trouble, into suffering, into an inability to thrive in the world, then perhaps re-examining it could be a
worthwhile idea. That's what I'd like to do, then, in a series of articles over the next several issues of Mind Chatter. I think you'll find this series to be very intriguing, and very relevant to your life.
Let's start out by taking a look at a description of reality put forth by mystical philosophers. For thousands of years, mystics have said that there is one energy in the universe, that the universe and everything in it is the play, the
dance, the vibration, of that one energy. Underneath the seeming multiplicity, they say, everything is made of the same substance. This energy, they say, is everywhere, and "everywhen." This principle is sometimes described as
Omnipresence, or God. The Hindus and Buddhists call this principle, Sat-one energy, everywhere, making up everything, always, past, present, and future.
Quantum mechanical physicists, for several decades, have been saying the same thing. They notice that on the sub-atomic level, particles come into being, seemingly out of nothing, and dissolve and disappear back into nothing, that two or
more particles collide, and one, two, three, or more particles, of a different kind, appear from the collision, or all the particles cease to exist. There is a "something" that everything comes out of and returns to, and which makes up, or
is the background of, everything.
The mystics, however, went one step further. In addition to noting that this one energy is omnipresent, they also said something else that I think is rather startling. They said that this one energy is aware of itself being everything and
everywhere and everywhen: that it is conscious, that it has consciousness. The mystics called this second characteristic of reality Chit.
We'll come back to this in a later article, but I want to briefly make the point here that consciousness, in this sense, is not the same as what we would ordinarily think of as "knowing," in a cognitive sense. This is not the same as your
senses and your brain knowing or recognizing something, though that's one of the only reference points we have, intellectually, for understanding the term consciousness. Ultimately, you have to experience being it, and I'll talk more later
about what I mean by that.
So, we have this one energy, this oneness, this unity, that is in and behind and over and around and through everything, and this energy of unity, this Oneness, is aware of itself being everything. Now, just for a moment, pretend that you
are this one energy. If you were everything, there would be nothing outside of you to fear. That would be like fearing your own hand. If everything is you, and you're everything, there's nothing to fear.
There would also be nothing to get, nothing you would lack, because you're everything. There would also be no where to go, since you're already everywhere. So, here you are, everything, always, everywhere, with nothing to want, nothing to
fear, no where to go.
If you had this awareness of who you are, you would be...happy, peaceful, blissful. So the third characteristic of reality, according to the mystics, is called Ananda, which means bliss.
So the mystical explanation of reality is called "satchitananda", which means one energy, everywhere, out of which everything is made and everything comes, aware of itself being everything and everywhere and everywhen, and as a result it
is blissful, happy, peaceful.
This, according to the mystical view, is who you really are. Your fears, your desires, your idea that you have to get to somewhere, the idea that you lack something, is, in this view, an illusion. You are not a separate ego in a bag of
skin, but rather are this oneness.
Sure, you say. How poetic. Pie in the sky. Sounds nice, and I've heard it all before. But if this is true, why am I so unhappy so much of the time? Why do I feel so powerless. Why does it seem as if I am a separate creature in what looks
to be a pretty dangerous world?
I mean, to live I need a constant supply of a very specific combination of gases to breath. I need food on a regular basis, or I die. I need to keep the temperature of my environment within a certain narrow range. And there's ultraviolet
rays, and other dangerous electromagnetic forces, and poisons, and dangerous people who want to hurt me, and if I get just a few miles away from the surface of a planet (which needs a certain atmosphere, at a certain temperature, and which
needs to be a certain distance from a certain kind of star), I can't survive.
Why, then, if I'm this one energy of everything, do I feel so isolated, so separate- and why am I so unhappy so often?
Well, the mystics have an answer for this question, and you've heard it before, and you may not like it, but here it is: you aren't happy and peaceful and in touch with the fact that you are all and everything, everywhere, eternally
peaceful and blissful, because of your mind. Your mind is in the way of your experience of who you really are.
In fact, as we will see, your mind is creating an alternate reality, that is, in a sense, like dust covering a mirror and keeping you from seeing who you really are.
Seeing that the mind gets in the way and obscures your true nature from you, the mystics came up with some methods for perceiving reality directly, without the filter of the mind, and the most effective and most popular of those is
meditation. Meditation is designed to still the mind, until eventually you gain enough control that you can look directly at reality, rather than filtering reality through the mind.
Those that master this ability to see reality directly report some rather startling things about it, and as we go along, I'm going to discuss this in much more depth.
Here's something to think about: Let's start with the premise that your mind is creating your reality. I hope by now, if you've been involved with me for any length of time, you understand that. So, assuming that that is the case, as long
as you attend to what the mind creates and see it as "reality", you miss anything else that may be there. When the mind wildly jumps around, creating, without your intention, really, a whole universe, inside and out, that universe will
grab all your attention, and that's all you'll see. As the mind becomes quieter, however, you begin to see the spaces between what the mind creates, like parting the branches in a thicket to see snatches of the meadow and the sky
beyond.
The other thing the mystics said, something that I also find very interesting, is that at the moment of creation, this one energy of all and everything polarized itself into a seeming duality: good and evil, up and down, male and female,
here and there, black and white, off and on, yin and yang, and so on. And there is a tension between the two sides of each of these poles, and the mystics say that this tension between polar opposites is what causes the universe to
manifest in the first place.
Now notice that I said this duality is a "seeming" duality. The reason why this duality, these opposites, only seem to exist is that each side of the duality depends on the other side for it's existence. Here makes no sense without there.
Not me makes no sense without me. Good makes no sense without evil. Each of these exist only in relation to the other. They are not, as we usually think of them, mutually exclusive opposites, but rather aspects of the same thing, the same
process.
Each of these seemingly opposite poles are, really, totally dependent on each other. They are one thing, not two. In being opposite, they are also inextricably tied to each other, and cannot exist independently. They're like two sides of
the same coin. You can't have a one-sided coin, and the two aspects of duality cannot exist separately either, nor can one win out over the other. I'll have a lot more to say about this later, and why it is such an important point on a
very practical level.
Something else I find very interesting is that this tension between polar opposites is reflected in the human brain. Your brain is divided into two hemispheres, a left and a right hemisphere, connected by a small piece of tissue called the
corpus collossum.
And, it's possible for one side of the brain to be more active, more dominant, than the other at any given time. This situation, dominance of one side of the brain over the other, is called brain lateralization, and the most interesting
thing about brain lateralization, to me, is that the more the brain is lateralized, the more unbalanced it is, the more likely we are to perceive things as separate, the more likely we are to see the two sides of the duality as being two
separate things, the more we miss the way in which good and evil, here and there, me and not-me, on and off, life and death, and all the other pairs of so-called opposites, are really aspects of the same thing.
On the other hand, the more balanced the brain is, the less the brain is lateralized to one side or the other, the more we naturally see how the two sides of any duality are really one, and the more you perceive how everything is
connected. When we see in this way, we get more and more in touch with that satchitananda I described. In other words, when I say the mind gets in the way of seeing and experiencing who you really are, it would be more accurate to say that
the lateralized mind, the lateralized brain, gets in the way of seeing who you really are, the one timeless energy of all and everything.
When you do see who you really are, you relax. As I said, when you see reality directly, when you directly perceive who you really are, without the mind getting in the way and imposing the world it creates on top of everything, there's
nowhere to go, nothing to get, nothing to fear. as a result, you relax and experience yourself as happiness, love, peace, and bliss.
This is where meditation comes in, because meditation is designed to balance the brain, which allows you to increasingly experience who you are. In another article, I'm going to go into meditation in much more detail, and how it works,
what actually happens in the brain when you meditate, and also how Holosync meditation relates to traditional meditation (you knew I'd get to that). But for now, let's just say that meditation, in balancing the brain, helps to get the mind
out of the way, allowing you to experience yourself, and reality, directly, and when this happens, everything flows.
Now some people, when I describe things in this way, have this idea that if you were able to see reality directly in the way I've described, that you would be this blob of jello with no motivation and no connection to life as we know it.
This however, is not at all what happens. When you see who you really are, you still are aware of the world the mind creates, the world of things and events, and you still participate in it. You know, however, all the while, that it's all
a game, a play, and nothing, really, can go wrong. Or, rather, that whatever happens, you (and everyone and everything else) is still that one energy of all and everything.
I'll go into this in more detail in another article, but for now I'll just mention that there are two ways of seeing things. In one way, the conventional way, we see the separation of things and the tension between opposites, and buy into
its reality. This could be called "The Game of Black and White." The problem with this way of seeing things is that when we play, we add a rule that gives us a lot of trouble: the rule that White Must Win. We think good must win over evil,
without realizing that the two depend on each other, and cannot exist independently. We want life to win out over death, again without realizing that they are one thing, not two.
This struggle to make what cannot be, be, creates suffering.
The other way of seeing things involves acknowledging that all the seeming opposites are one system, one organism, and that everything "goes-with" everything else, and that fighting to make one side disappear or lose is futile.
Now this doesn't mean that you don't strive to be good, or to stay alive, but it does mean that you realize that this striving is not to be taken too seriously, and that you don't need to suffer over it. Suffering, as Buddha said, is
caused by attachment, and being attached to one side of a duality "winning" is as silly as being attached to throwing a ball in the air and it never coming down. It won't happen.
In fact, I'll tell you that operating in this other way, in which you see things as more of a game, works much better. Since I've adopted it, I'll tell you that I have much more passion for life, not less. I get better results. I feel more
alive, not less. I just don't have to suffer over things being different than I would like them to be.
And, ironically, the more you adopt this more conscious posture toward life, the less you are attached to what happens, or how it happens, the more things seem to happen the way you would like them to happen. You would think that the more
attached you are, the more you would strive and the more things would go your way, but that isn't how it works. When you adopt the posture I'm advocating, life becomes effortless, and what needs to happen, happens. It's as if the whole
universe lined up on your side to help you. And when things turn out differently than you wanted, you just go on, remaining just as happy as if they had gone the way you wanted.
So, you ask, how do you get to this place? Well, there are many ways, and I don't claim my way is the only way, and it may not even be the best way, though it's the best way I have found. I suggest you diligently meditate with Holosync,
since doing so creates the changes in the brain that allow you to see how things are connected, and how everything works together. And the second thing I suggest is learning what I'm teaching in these three online courses, my Life
Principles Integration Process.
If you do these things, you become conscious of how your mind is creating your reality. At the very least, you become able to direct that creation in the direction you want. Then, if you want to go further, you can, at will, step out of
the world created by your mind, and stand aside from it, so to speak, while still participating. As I said, my view is that your participation of it improves. Like getting all the taste without the calories, developing this kind of
conscious awareness gives you all the zest for life without the suffering.
Next time we'll investigate these ideas in more detail. Until then...
Be well.
Bill Harris, Director
[If you found this article helpful, please send a copy of this issue to a friend!]
PS: Be sure to check out Marc Gilson's review (below) of Dr. Joe Mercola's Total Health Cookbook and Program.
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8. Glowing Testimonials and Letters
First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR and thank You for the present. I have received the "Making Change Easy" CD right on the 1st of January. I do belive in a symbolism of certain things.
I came to the realization myself, that all behavioral problems are caused by number of negative situations, that we had experienced in the past.
In my case, it was the worst case scenario: violent, torturing mother, death of the father, hidden chronic depression, over-eating, suicide attempts, etc., etc., etc.
After my 29th birthday I have just realized, that there will be no-one to help me, but myself. Today's psychiatry does not cure these things. I mean, technically, yes, they do know, they all have read Freud (and probably Jung), but
practically it takes a lot of time and therapy and work--it does not worth it for them. They can hook you on pills, that will not solve any of your problems, just pushing inside of you, of your conscience the factors causing psychologic
defect, without any salvation. You get hooked on them to the end of your life. And, personally, I think that this is a bit high price, that all distressed people have to pay for being "half-alive".
So, I've decided to cure myself. I have started from the very primitive exercises on hypnosis. I was hypnotizing myself and then, being in trance tried to analyze and understand why things did happen the way they did, why do I have my
problems and how to get rid of them. It's a very long way, but it's possible to cure yourself by study, research and infinite amount of "tries".
I, totally agree with You, that this kind of research is impossible without transcendent meditations and changes of conscience. When I have tried to do it on my own, the results were hardly noticed. Your CD's are absolutely strongest and
the most effective way for curing yourself.
After first few weeks of listening "the Dive" I have stopped taking an anti-depressants. The improvement shows every day. So, from the bottom of my heart-Thank You, Bill Harris. God Bless You and People working with You, for giving us
an opportunity to win our lives over.
I believe that the Holosync Technology has a tremendous potential-curing depression and improvement of mental stability and intuition is just the tip of the iceberg.
Happy New Year. I wish You to have the new discoveries and lots and lots of Luck.
Sincerely,
Ksenia S.
PS. Sorry for possible mistakes in writing-English is my second language.
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Hello Bill
Firstly, thank you so much for your programme. I have found it
beneficial in many ways - physically: improved health status (& I thought I was already healthy!) and releasing of tight joints; emotionally: I can now cry to release tension and actually get in touch with my feelings & emotions;
spiritually: opening up my heart to divine love and removing judgement from my life.
I have been working on my emotional/spiritual being for 7 years (after 10 years on the physical body). I have never been able to truly meditate and find the skill of witnessing fascinating. It is one that has kept me out of a lot of
trouble since using the programme. I now listen actively
and in that process able to assist others to identify their own problems instead of telling them what their problem is!
Now when I hear sounds similar to those on the CD, I witness my body actually relaxing in the moment. That is a recent experience. I did notice in the first few weeks moments of impatience (sometimes stronger than that!) and then gone in a
flash. One day though I was out of kilter all day until I had a good look at myself and let go through tears. Instantly I was on an even keel again. It was amazing.
My husband of 27 years is also listening to the CD at least 5
nights/week. He puts the earphones on as he hops into bed, goes to sleep promptly and wakes when the CD finishes. Although a very hard worker, he tends to leave projects unfinished. He has been more motivated in the last few weeks around
the home than in a long time. He is also softer in
the face. My son (17 years old) also listens to the CD and he is laughing more spontaneously.
Professionally, I am a naturopath and recommend your programme to numerous clients.
Once again, thank you for your programme, follow up letters/literature and especially your book. That is a gem in itself. It reinforces the same principles I have learnt in other modalities, but you have written it beautifully and in a
more easily understood way (for me, anyway).
I know you must get 100's of emails. Thank you for reading this one and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Mavis C.
Perth
Western Australia
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Dear Centerpointe,
Thank you, Bill for your great program and enthusiasm in promoting and supporting us on our journey.I am very grateful for "Thesholds of the Mind" it makes the whole journey into a very simple road map. I had reached a point where I was
unable to cope with just about everything and could not see my way out.My job which was making souvenir Boomerangs etc was becoming to much.I'd hit the wall.Everything was suffering, fortunately my relationship has held together and we
live on a beautiful self-contained bush block 2 hours north from Brisbane Australia.The more I listen with focus the more I'm getting out of the program. My ability to deal with life is improving daily I have a greater understanding of
what's happening why it is and just go with the flow.
Love Peace & Happiness
Daniel M.
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Dear Bill,
My 22 year old son had a severe head injury 3 years ago in an accident. It left him with cognitive impairments, depression and personality problems that were difficult to cope with. He was a very gentle, loving, gifted and academically
oriented young man before the accident and he lost almost everything.
I read everything I could about brain regeneration and brain in general to help his recovery. I took him to different naturopaths and herbalists and he also went back to school to "retrain" his brain back to normal functioning, to speed up
the production of new brain cells.
All this helped somewhat, but he just could not learn. He was tired all the time, could not concentrate for longer periods, and was frustrated. He studied all day, did not go out, sacrificed everything for his university, then when he got
low marks and failed despite all the hard work he put into it, he went really depressed, angry and even aggressive.
I am a psychologist, so I knew that half of his problems was caused by depression and anxiety. Antidepressants were out of question, they inhibit mental alertness and cognitive functioning even further. Nothing could help, he was
emotionally down every day, my husband and I had to stay with him every day in turns to keep his mood up.
Then I saw the Centerpointe information booklet at one of my client's place. She did not want it, so I took it home to have a look. I would never buy any meditation tape, because I know they do not work - every person is different and
needs different meditation techniques, no way that those commercial tapes would ever work. Since I know a lot about mind control and the power of subconscious (I studied Jose Silva's Mind control 10 years ago and used it myself with
success) I realised that Centerpointe was something really different. When I read through the information book, I sent the money and the order form in express envelope- I could not wait to get the program. It was 6 weeks ago and now our
family is doing it too.
What happened: when Norbert started, he was very good for about 5 days. He became more calm and more happy. He did it for 3 weeks, and he was amazing - he NEVER got depressed ever since (before the program he was down every day), he is
NEVER tired (which is amazing - in last 3 years he was chronically tired), he is never aggressive or moody and he is always happy and optimistic. Really big changes in such a short time period! He sleeps really well and much less than
before and he is still never tired - he gets up around 6 am and starts with his Centerpointe program! He had a big crisis when he switched to Immerse - 3-4 days after. But he stopped for 2 days and went back again : no problems, he is
fine. I am delighted.
His facial expression was always weird before, one could tell that his brain was not working properly. He looks more and more "normal" now since he is on this program. His eyes are clearer and his thinking and reasoning is much, much
clearer. I have no words indeed. And he just started the program. This program should be used by people who had traumatic brain injury!!!!!!!! I am relieved, because I can work again - I could not leave him home by himself before, because
he needed daily support to keep going.He is getting back to normal functioning. Oh yes, and he started studying with Quietude - he said it was fantastic! Without the CD he could not focus and his brain got tired fast. With Quietude he
could focus for hours and learned more easily. I am doing my Postgraduate studies , I will use the Quietude myself!
Thank you so very much for this wonderful program. It saved my son's life and saved our family's life too! God bless Bill, and you will hear from us soon, I will have a lot to share I am sure. I am telling about this program to all my
friends and clients now, my friend already ordered it last week...Centerpointe program is the psychologist of the millennium!
Regards
Marianna B.(Australia)
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9. BOOK REVIEW
By Marc Gilson
Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook & Program
150 Delicious Grain-Free Recipes & Proven Metabolic
Type Plan to Prevent Disease, Optimize Weight and Live Longer
By Dr Joseph Mercola
With Brian Vaszily
Dr. Kendra Pearsall
Nancy Lee Bentley
2003 Dr. Joseph Mercola
***If you would like to read more about or order this book click here:
http://www.mercola.com/forms/centerpointe.htm
Here's a challenge: Try walking through a bookstore, picking up a news or health magazine, or watching television for awhile without seeing some reference to the latest diet plan. Or should I say, plans. They're everywhere! I suspect that
you're in the minority if you haven't tried at least one of the multitude of diet plans in the past year. And you're definitely in the minority if you're not confused by what these plans want you to do. Eat fat! No, stay away from fat! Eat
lots of fish! Avoid the fish! No fruit! A quart of fruit!
Do these diets work? Well, some do, for some people, some of the time. It wasn't until I had read several chapters of Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook and Program that it occurred to me: here is a diet plan that will work for nearly
anyone, anytime. If you're ready to stop the seemingly endless arguments over what should or should not be consumed for proper health, don't bother reading the rest of my review, just order the book.
Some of you Centerpointe program participants are already familiar with Dr. Mercola and his terrific website, http://www.mercola.com. Indeed, that's the hundreds of you found out about Centerpointe--from Joe Mercola's recommendation in
his newsletter. So you already know that Dr. Mercola's work is well-conceived, thorough, and amazingly informative. His book is no different. It is, he says, the result of over 20 years of personal research and exploration into what he
sees as the most important challenge facing us today: proper physical health.
From the introduction:
"Beginning in the late 1970's, when I was still in medical school, I had a strong notion that nothing was more essential to health and healing than proper diet. A few years later, as a young physician, I began what would become my life's
passion and mission: to determine through committed investigations and practice the true 'ideal diet' to help prevent chronic disease and weight issues, and to reach their highest potential living a long life full of energy and free from
pain."
Dr. Mercola goes on to explain how he found that the foundations for the conventional health care system were flawed; that the focus was merely on treatment, not prevention. From that point on, Dr. Mercola has dedicated his career to
researching and educating the public on the importance of preventative health care, and to providing specific and detailed ways in which anyone can improve their health. This idea of preventative health care is not new, of course. But
rarely has there been such a thorough presentation of the various ways by which we can, with a few simple steps, become healthier (and therefore happier) people.
Although Dr. Mercola's plan can fit just about anybody living any lifestyle, that's not to say that this is a "one-size fits all" plan. In Chapter 5, Dr. Mercola presents a brief test to determine your metabolic type (this test is a more
condensed version of a more extensive test originally developed by Bill Wolcott). By taking the test, you can then refer to Dr. Mercola's "Food Guidelines for Each Metabolic Type" which follows the test section.
I appreciated Dr. Mercola's attention to the emotional aspect of dieting and health. Eating right isn't simply a physical matter. Many people develop emotional relationships with their eating habits, and changing them can represent some
major challenges in that regard.
It has been said that we "self-medicate" with our foods. For some of us, that means a little too many cookies, hamburgers, or pieces of pie. Willpower alone won't change this relationship. So Dr. Mercola devotes ample time in his book to
"How to Overcome Emotional Barriers." Included in this section are his suggestions to try EFT, Tai Chi, and Holosync which are tremendous ways of enhancing mental and emotional health to compliment the physical improvements you'll get by
following Dr. Mercola's guidelines.
As I mentioned, the book is thorough. Dr. Mercola discusses exercise (do at least a little), water (drink a lot!), sleep (did you know you might sleep better by having a a high protein snack a few hours before bedtime?), supplements (don't
overdo them, but consider Vitamin E, K, and Cod Liver Oil) and much more.
In addition:
*The single most important modification of your diet that will rapidly improve your health and help you normalize your weight -- page 7
*The fruits that are healthiest to eat, including one that can actually reverse brain aging -- page 20
*The single most important supplement you can take that should be a regular part of your diet as it will greatly increase your lifespan and reduce your risk for cancer and heart disease -- page 61-62
*What you really need to know about fats if you want to reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer and auto-immune disease -- page 23
*The nine-question test to help you determine the best types of food to eat for your specific biochemistry -- pages 38-41
* The dangers of a commonly used method to purify water that has been fooling the public for decades, and the simple steps to healthy water that you should take instead -- pages 56-57
As for the part many of you may be wondering about - the recipes - rest assured that these dishes are not just "leaves and berries," but satisfying, tasty meals. For example, how about Braised Brazilian Greens, with garlic and turkey ham?
Or Green Bean Casserole with fresh mushrooms, or Creamy Avocado Soup, Herb-Seasoned Steak Broil, Egg Foo Yung, Quiche, Baked Salmon. Try the Pineapple Elixir for an amazingly refreshing drink. Dessert? How about some Pina Colada Chewies,
or Coconut Custard Flan Pie? These are just a few of about 150 recipes in the book.
As Dr. Mercola says, "nothing in life is more precious than your health." If you're looking for a way to stay true to that New Year's resolution you made a few days ago, or if you've been searching for a comprehensive
diet/cookbook/lifestyle enhancement method that will not fail, get the book. Like the Holosync Solution, if you use it, it will change your life for the better!
***If you would like to read more about or order this book click here:
http://www.mercola.com/forms/centerpointe.htm
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