CHAPTER 1
Breathing
Number one in importance — make sure you keep breathing available, pure, toxin-free, clean air. It is good if you can put yourself in the healthiest air possible. This can be accomplished in a number of ways — some of which I will list here for your consideration. Get an air washing and purification system for your home or a portable unit for the room you spend the most time in (if you live in a toxic-air area and moving does not seem feasible). The investment will more than repay itself in your added health. Finding a healthy-air environment and moving there is another possibility. If the above suggestions seem too difficult or not currently possible, then consider at least conditioning the air in your home with an inexpensive ion generator (or two). Run them in the rooms in your home where you spend the most time. The older used ones can often be found in thrift or secondhand stores for a few dollars. They work fine for settling dust out of the air, and though you may have to dust more often, at least you won't be breathing it! Don't run these all the time, just until you see a good amount of dust settled on surfaces, or after dusting or running a vacuum, or on dusty days. Get a good-quality spray bottle and occasionally mist the air in your home. I use one of the following solutions for misting: plain pure water, distilled water, or water to which I have added hydrogen peroxide in a ratio of one tablespoon to half a gallon of water. This will wash the air and add negative ions to the air (useful for healing and a sense of well-being). Water with hydrogen peroxide also adds oxygen to the air. Make sure not to use this misting in an already humid environment or in spaces where you are not going to be. A good rule of thumb would be once a day, to a maximum of three or four times per day if you are in a dry environment. In extremely dry environments or if using wood for winter heating, up to five or six times per day could be possible. Breathing exercises can also be very important to our health. It is reasonable to say that breath is life! Here is the Schley Conscious Breathing Training Technique. Pay conscious attention to your breathing at least three times per day and check the following: are you a relaxed breather or a tense breather? Relaxed breathers tend to allow the relaxed body to take in the air and distribute it as required. Tense breathers tend to tense certain muscle sets and related body areas each time they breathe, which can lead to various physical complaints and real body concerns, such as tight neck and shoulders, tight chest, tension-induced circulation issues, pain, and a host of other concerns. It is to your advantage to identify what type of breather you are and then retrain yourself to breathe for optimal health. If you are a tense breather, your first action is to learn how to be a relaxed breather. Take the Schley Conscious Breathing Training Techniques as described below and apply them to any tense, uncomfortable, or out-of-balance areas of the body you are aware of, until you become a relaxed breather. If you are a relaxed breather, you have a certain advantage in that you do not have to do much to train yourself to relax. There are not a lot of people who are completely relaxed breathers, so you may wish to include tune-ups during your three conscious periods of breathing each day. Consciously direct your breath to areas where you want to release tension, heal, improve vitality, increase circulation, and expand your awareness. This process of directed breathing can be achieved by imagining your whole body is breathing in and out, even your skin. Breathe in a full breath, imagining that this breath is going to certain directed areas of your body, and imagine that you are experiencing the desired effect of this breath, such as healing, relaxation, improved circulation, improved vitality, eliminated discomfort, and generally improved health. Now breathe out wholly and completely, simply reversing the breathing-in process, even breathing out through your skin, allowing the outgoing breath to eliminate any toxins and respiratory waste materials. We call this breath a "round breath," in that the breath is not held at any point. It is as though the breath is drawing a circle, with the in breath being the first half of the circle and the out breath being the second half of the circle. Most people, by consciously focusing on and experiencing different parts of the body, can identify and balance any tense, uncomfortable, and out-of-balance areas using the Schley conscious breathing training, directed breathing, and relaxation techniques. It is possible that you can be unaware of areas of tension or imbalance and that even after you have consciously focused on different body areas, some tense or blocked areas may still not be discovered. You can be assisted in discovering these areas by enlisting the help of caring friends or natural health care professionals, particularly therapeutic massage and breath therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, yoga teachers, tai chi or chi gong instructors, and kinesiology health professionals who are aware of whole body dynamics in relation to health. We have now covered simple breathing basics. As in all the important subjects of this book, one could spend an entire lifetime studying breathing and would find that the study and practice of breathing alone will ultimately provide a holographic map to body balance, super consciousness, and relationships to the holographic body generally unknown to the public at large. For those of you who have found this subject exceptionally interesting, I refer you to the bibliography (references and resources by chapter) at the end of this book for more information.
CHAPTER 2
Water
Do not underestimate the value of pure water in the maintenance of your health. Since the majority of our bodies consist of water, it is only reasonable that we make the purity, quality, and amount of water we put into our bodies a priority project! Water is also life! To begin with, research and find out about the quality of the water you have been drinking on a regular basis. You may have to pay for an independent analysis to get truly accurate information. If your water is pure and of good quality, great! If not, check on the availability of pure water in your area. If you find a reasonable, trusted source of pure water (which may not be as easy as it sounds), then your drinking water problem is solved. I recommend drinking a full glass of distilled water (or two if you are thirsty) first thing in the morning, before drinking or eating anything else. If possible, give your body twenty minutes or more to assimilate this new water. The average adult can use eight to twelve eight-ounce glasses of water per day, or more depending on the amount of physical activity the person does. When you are thirsty, that is your body letting you know you need water. Drink pure water and stay adequately hydrated. Distilled water purchased from the store is much better than most tap water; however, occasionally too much plastic transfers from the plastic bottle to the water. This most often happens during the summer, when the water being transported gets overheated in the plastic. If you can find distilled water in glass bottles, that is ideal. Most tap water is like a passenger train with all or most of the seats on the train occupied and little or no space for passengers. Distilled water is like the same train with all or most of the seats on the train available for passengers. When you drink distilled water first thing in the morning, the passengers on this distilled water train are the waste materials your body has been producing during your sleep, and since the train has arrived, your body will make sure as many of these waste materials as possible take the train out of the body. In addition, any material the body needs to transfer to some other location can take a short hop on this train and get off at the location needed before the distilled water train leaves the body. Pure water, as noted earlier, is a transport facilitator and medium for nutrients and minerals to be more easily dispersed where needed in the body, as well as transporting waste materials out of the body. Energy can be imprinted into water, and that energy can be transferred to someone using this water for washing or drinking. This subject alone could be, and has been, the subject of a number of books. I believe, and it has been recorded, that the power of prayer and intention can and does alter the energetic structure of water. Since we are mostly water, what can the power of prayer and intention do for us? We will refer to this idea again in the section on the holographic body. There are people, and I happen to be one of them, who believe "new water" is being continually created deep in the earth and that this water finds its way to the surface in select geological areas. If you are aware of these areas, or if you happen to own one of these new water wells or springs, consider that you have one of the most valuable resources of the world in your possession! If you know of someone who owns or knows the location of one or more of these new water wells, consider purchasing water rights to a percentage of this pure water. If you have friends who own one of these new water wells or springs and they are willing to share with you, consider that you have been gifted with a treasured resource through their kindness. There are also wells and aquifers that are still producing pure and clean water, although they are becoming harder to find. If you find or own one of these, celebrate. If you have an interest in pure water — and we all should — just discovering and identifying these water sources and making agreements with the owners or purchasing the sources could be a valuable undertaking. If you do not have access to pure water, you must do the best you can. Most supermarkets and healthy food stores carry distilled water. They also often carry inexpensive bulk drinking water that is double reverse osmosis, carbon filtered, ultraviolet light-treated purified water that you can fill your own container with, or purchase a container to fill. I personally have used water filtration, double reverse osmosis water purification systems, and portable home kitchen water distillers. If finding pure or distilled water is too much trouble and you have a reliable electrical source, I would recommend you consider buying a portable kitchen water distiller. Whatever you choose to do, please start your day, before eating anything, by drinking at least one or two glasses (if you are thirsty) of distilled water. If you have a good solar location, you could also experiment with a solar distiller; either buy or build one. As in all primary categories in this book, water can also be a fulfilling lifetime study. See the bibliography (reference and resources by chapter) at the end of this book for more information.
CHAPTER 3
Food
Be a Rainbow Eater (people like you, committed to living a healthy life, in a peaceful world, where win/win solutions are a way of life!) Rainbow Eaters select vegetables and fruits including all the colors of the rainbow which provide, not only colorful food, but a full spectrum of nutrition. When possible, eat organically grown food. It is better if you can find your food locally grown. Properly grown, organically certified food is generally higher in vital energy and true, useable nutritional value, including enzymes, trace elements, and minerals. Avoid commercially, chemically grown, pesticide-sprayed, possibly GMO-altered, irradiated food (GMO stands for genetically modified organism, more commonly referred to as genetically modified foods). Sometimes organically grown and certified food is a bit more expensive than commercially grown food; however, your body will know the difference. You and your family will not have to deal with the impact and elimination of the toxic material that is often inside or on the surface of commercially grown, toxic, chemical food. Here are two valuable shopping tips that you can train yourself to notice. When shopping for food, select the item that you are considering buying by looking at it before you touch it. Notice while standing still if your body is making a micro-movement toward the item (leaning toward it) or away from the item (leaning away from it). This movement is sometimes quite obvious and sometimes very subtle, but, anyone with a little practice can train themselves to notice this. Initially, get a friend to observe you, as it is sometimes easier for a separate party to notice the movements in the beginning. Just have your friend notice, while you are standing still, if you lean toward or away from the item being considered. If your body leans toward the item, that is an indicator that it is probably good for you; if your body leans away from the item, it is probably not good for you. Our holographic sensory systems, which have developed over the centuries, have trained our holographic body to notice this as a matter of survival. When we have trained ourselves in these practices, we can train others. If you are a visually oriented person, you can train yourself to notice another indicator, which is the color of live food, such as fruits and vegetables. Food that is not healthy for human consumption has a "shadow field" on and around it. Train yourself to see this field by relaxing and viewing your intended purchase with "soft eyes," consciously relaxing your gaze and noticing an almost floating, shadowy gray mist on and around the item or items. Buy those without shadows. Avoid those with shadows. One of the easiest foods to train on is apples, as they are quite easy to see the difference on. Do not be surprised to find that many or most items have shadows, even in health-food stores! These two shopping tips are simple, easy examples. Processed foods are not live foods but do have a discernible energy field. I do not believe that there is a way for you to be fooled into buying something unhealthy for you once you have learned these two practices! There are many methods we can use to train ourselves to know what is good for us. Another practice is to use muscle testing when selecting foods. General guidelines for muscle testing can be found in chapter 9. Training yourself is the best investment you can make for your health and the health of those you love! Once you are trained, you will know without a doubt what is good for you and not good for you. Be a Rainbow Eater.
Start with Red Foods. Eat Your Beets.
Grate raw red beets. The grating process exposes the vegetable to the air and changes it from a kind of bitter vegetable to a mildly sweet and delicious vegetable that your body will love! Said to build the blood, beets are high in available nutrients that nourish the blood.
Orange Foods. Eat Your Carrots.
Here again, grated raw carrots are delicious and a great source of calcium and carotene for the body. Ever see that white stuff in the bottom of a bottle of carrot juice? That's calcium! I recommend carrots. There are many different orange foods to choose from, including raw and grated butternut squash or pumpkin for example.
Yellow Foods. Eat Your Squash.
Crookneck squash, raw and grated, is a good yellow food. An additional good yellow food is spaghetti squash, a delightful vegetable alternative to the pasta in spaghetti. Juice of a ripe yellow, organically grown Meyer lemon, or any other lemon, makes great lemonade, just plain in distilled water (good first thing in the morning). If too tart, add a small amount of organic, pure maple syrup to taste. And of course this lemon juice with a little cold pressed olive oil and some herbs and seasonings makes a good, healthy salad dressing. Again, there are many different yellow foods to choose from.
Green Foods. Eat your greens.
Green food, food high in chlorophyll, has a cleansing and blood-nourishing effect on the body. The chlorophyll molecule is very similar to the hemoglobin molecule of the blood. Green is one of the primary balancing colors of the body. Green foods, such as sprouts of all kinds (I love sunflower seed sprouts), are good green food and full of life! Wheat grass is also good; just chew the grass or drink the juice. Some people do not care for wheat grass, but it has a long track record for being extremely healthy. If you choose to grow your own wheat grass in flats of soil, be sure to add some kelp meal to the soil. Kelp meal increases the vitality of the wheatgrass, adding important trace minerals and nutrients. If you do not care for wheat grass (or have a wheat grass sensitivity), growing sprouts of other vegetables is a good alternative. Consider growing your own sprouts in your kitchen (from organically certified non-GMO seeds). It's easy! There are so many good greens out there, such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, green beans, cabbage, kale, mustard greens, and an almost endless variety of other edible greens. You won't have any problem finding green foods! While it is always more desirable to eat our vegetables in their raw state as fresh as possible, the practice of juicing for adding vegetables and fruits to our bodies when we need it is helpful when we have not been able to consume enough vegetables and fruits. One of my favorite vegetable and fruit drink combinations is carrot, kale (or spinach), celery, red beets, and apple juice. Very yummy! You will have to play with the amounts of each until you determine what is perfect at any given time for you.
