THE CHI KUNG BIBLE:  MASTERING PERSONAL POWER by Gary J. Clyman

CHAPTER #7 - LIVING HEALTHY

THE 7 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF WHOLISTIC HEALTH

Are you destroying your most prized possession?  When I am talking about 
the most prized possession that we could ever hope of having, what could  
be more valuable than our own health? 

Of what value is having all the riches in the world, if we don't have the 
vitality and well-being to enjoy them?  What about the common practice 
of successfully accumulating many different forms of riches, (money, 
real estate, etc.) but to have them wiped out during a brief stay in the 
hospital, at about $1000 per day and rising.  

Would it not be better thinking in advance of cultivating our health resources 
and actually own up to taking responsibility for our own health and financial 
future.  What I, as a wholistic health practitioner, am going to give you, is 
what I call The 7 Basic Principles of Wholistic Health

These concepts are given with the intention of saving you much of the 
work that has been painfully undertaken by many people that have made 
a conscious decision, that they are not willing to follow the same "path of  
doom," that their parents and relatives have followed before them. 

I would like to give you a bit of my own personal history.  I was living 
under the illusion that modern medicine had an answer for everything and 
at the appropriate time would mysteriously appear.  At that time, my 
favorite uncle was using one of the wonders of modern medicine, insulin, 
ignoring his own diet, weight problem and smoking cigars.  Little did I 
know that that was not the end-all answer to all of his problems.  He had 
been a diabetic for many years, and who, in those days, would have ever 
thought that to be unusual.  

However, with his diabetes and some additional stress, he had a massive 
heart attack and died in the presence of the doctors, hospitals, and all 
their equipment couldn't put Uncle Joe back together again. 

So are you wondering what my story has to do with wholistic health?  
Hold on, we're getting closer.  Nine days after my uncle had his heart 
attack, his closest brother, my father, had his heart attack and died 
within hours.  This you see, started me thinking, my father had gone to 
the hospital just a few days prior to having his heart attack, and was 
given a "clean bill of health."  

So let us look at the daily stressors that led up to this tragedy.  The 
stress of their mother dying of cancer, with the additional stress of a 
tormented neighborhood in 1968, the undue influence of the terrible 
America diet, and smoking 3 packs of cigarettes daily.  Does this sound 
like a common situation that you have seen in your family?  If this had 
never happened, I probably would have been a quite successful dentist 
by now, and followed another path.  

However, how could one ignore such a "calling," when there was such 
a need to discover and educate other people in "the ways of health."  
For this reason, I made a con- scious switch of paths, from the path of 
illness, to the pursuit of health.   

When you look at the general health of the people in one of the richest 
countries in the world, and see what the average person is suffering 
from, how can you but wonder, what influences can contribute to the 
depletion of such a rich people and their most valuable possession?  I have 
been in the "people business" for over 10 years.  Many traits come to 
mind when looking at the general population.  Please inspect these ideas 
and take from them the strength and understanding available to you. 

PRINCIPLE #1.  The body possesses the natural ability to strive 
towards achieving "perfect health."  If this ability is recognized, then it 
makes our wish to obtain "perfect health" much more realistic.  If the 
proper steps towards replacing illness with health are taken, then 
prevention and normalization of many disease processes can begin.  

This means that we as individuals must take personal responsibility for our 
own "health status," and only when we do this, can we enjoy the pleasures 
of abundant energy, an the attitude that we can produce our wishes for the 
future. 

PRINCIPLE #2.  The structure of the body is directly related to its function.  
By this I mean that any changes which are made in the outer or physical 
body will affect a direct corollary change in the spiritual, emotional, and 
mental counterparts.  For instance, notice what happens the next time 
you are under a great deal of stress on your job.  Look for associated 
symptoms that you would usually overlook or attribute to another cause.  

Look and see if you have a tendency to reach for some kind of sweet 
snack the next time you are under fire.  There are very logical reasons 
that your body craves sugar at those times.   When the body is under 
more stress than usual, the adrenal glands have to work harder to try 
to equalize the body's chemistry.  We as Americans, due to over-
stimulation from sweets, have developed what is commonly referred to 
as "the roller coaster syndrome."  

The illness that is in epidemic proportion is called "hypoglycemia," which 
means low blood sugar.  The answer to this problem is not to ingest 
more sugar, but to allow the body to come off the unhealthy high many 
of us have been on for so many years. 

If sugar was introduced for the first time today, the FDA (Food and Drug 
Administration) would not allow it to be put on the market.  Sugar is more 
addictive than heroin, but due to a strong sugar lobby, it has become an 
accepted part of our food supply and our society.  Many great books are 
available to easily explain this common ailment.  

Sugar Blues, by William Dufty is an excellent book that should be read.  
The human body is a miraculous machine, no matter how much punishment 
we inflict upon it, it always tries to bounce back for more. 

In the old days, it was very easy to determine what our obstacles were.  
However, with the advent of modern fast foods, we have lost sight of 
our enemy.  We are no longer at risk of sanitary diseases or instant death 
afflictions.  Now we have to be aware of our new enemies.  The diseases 
of the past used to kill off mankind at an early age, but now, since we 
are living much longer, we are developing chronic degenerative diseases.  

Old age does not cause disease, longer life spans allow for longer 
developmental periods.  We must prepare our worn out bodies and 
strengthen our health reserves.  Improved diet, and effective methods of 
reducing stress, proper rest, and sufficient exercise would be a good 
list with which to start. 

PRINCIPLE #3.  Health is the primary area to study when attempting to 
understand disease.  If of our modern health providers would concentrate 
on the prevention and maintenance aspect of health, many people would 
look at the other side of the coin.  Imagine preparing and participating 
in your own health future, so you could become independent of the doctors, 
whom so many people have learned to respect and revere.  

Does it not make sense to learn health-giving habits and traits that you 
could use for your own well being?  Running off to your doctor for a pill 
that will cover up, or suppress, that valuable signal that your body is 
trying to communicate, what's the point?  We should learn to listen to 
our own nature, because if we just let our bodies communicate with us we 
would understand what our body is trying to tell us. 

PRINCIPLE #4.  The Musculo-Skeletal System, which incorporates bones, 
ligaments, muscles, fascia and many other kinds of tissue, forms a 
structure which, when disordered, may affect the function of the other 
parts and systems of the body.  This might be the result of irritation 
of abnormal response of the nerve, and/or poor blood supply, nutritional 
supports, and/or electrical energy to these other organs or parts.  

The body is and should be viewed as a complete unit.  This is what has 
gone wrong with conventional western medicine.  In Wholistic Medicine, 
the body is viewed as a complete unit, and each part is directly related to 
each other part of the whole.  In China, the concept of a unified body, 
mind and spirit, is an unsaid law.  Only in the west, do we have to 
actively think to try to re-unite all the different aspects of parts of 
our being. 

PRINCIPLE #5.  The body is subject to many mechanical, nutritional, 
emotional, and/or electrical disorders and is therefore capable of multiple 
corrections.  Each correction may be enhanced by considering the body as 
"a complete unit" when aiming at normalizing and strengthening each 
part of the body.  This would explain why you get depressed when you 
have a physical pain, and why you can also create a physical pain that 
is directly associated with your adverse emotional states.  This is also 
why you feel better when you eat foods that are better for you. 

Nutritional supplements sometimes can aid with physical problems, 
adverse emotional states, attitude problems, and many other seemingly 
unrelated factors.  Imagine if there were a specific way of determining 
exactly what nutrients your body needed on a daily basis, wouldn't that 
be a great tool?  That tool does exist.  It is called "The Muscle Response 
Test" (The MRT).  

You might have heard about this test already.  It can help you determine 
exactly what nutrients are needed by your body on a daily basis.  When 
you receive this test, you can find out exactly what your body needs on 
a daily basis.  The procedure is painless, accurate and effective and has 
been used by many doctors, Chiropractors, and nutritionists all over 
the country.  There are practitioners offering this test in your area, 
just ask.

PRINCIPLE #6.  Our bodies are constantly struggling to overcome many 
daily stressors.  I will list the major stressors according to categories.  

1) Severe exertions, 2) Immunological reactions, 3) allergies, 4) 
infections, 5) surgery, 6) malnutrition, 7) strong emotions, 8) 
environmental pollutants and food additives, 9) pregnancy, 10) severe 
exposures such as heat, sun, and cold, 11) unhealthy lifestyle, and 12) 
habitual abuses.  Take a close look into your own daily life to see if 
your actions fit into some of these basic categories.  When you have 
all these unhealthy factors working against you, no wonder the most 
commonly reported complaint in my health practice is "Low Energy."  
This is one main reason so many people want to learn Chi Kung.

PRINCIPLE #7.  Good health is our God given right; illness and disease 
represent an unnatural state.  To be really healthy is our Godly 
inheritance.  That's why maintaining "perfect health" is a constant and 
ongoing process.

SUGAR:  A HORRIBLY ADDICTIVE DRUG

The most important principle to follow is, "everything in moderation."  
Many people abuse their bodies one day, and then try to make up for it 
the next day.  This is a very illogical and unhealthy thing to put ourselves 
through.  Most people know that white refined sugar is very bad for the 
body.  However, how many people know that brown sugar is nothing more 
than white sugar covered with molasses.  

O.K., so sugar is bad, but did you know that alcohol is even worse?  
The sugar content in alcohol is much more difficult for the body to 
metabolize, not to mention what alcohol does to our poor liver, when it 
tries to absorb the poisons we so joyfully ingested. 

I would like to address a modern day disease that is in epidemic pro-
portion; Hypoglycemia, alias "Low Blood Sugar."  Stop, that does not 
mean you have a sugar deficiency.  Some medical doctors are still telling 
their poor, defenseless, ignorant patients, that when they feel tired and 
run down they should eat something sweet like a candy bar.  This brilliant 
bit of nutritional advice is equivalent to telling a fireman to go throw 
gas on a fire.  This absolutely aggravates the situation and this is about 
as practical as being told to eat a well balanced diet from the 4 basic 
food groups.  

With all this knowledge available, why has the medical profession 
stayed with the nutritional principles taught in the 1950's?  Could it 
be that that's when they learned?  Robert S. Mendelsohn M. D. told me 
one time, "you can tell when a doctor went to school by the drugs he 
prescribes and the advice he gives." 

I would like to give a practical explanation of how to view Hypoglycemia. 
Imagine a young child living on a very poor diet.  What would that look 
like to you?  He goes to the store everyday and buys his regular daily 
snacks.  


He eats his share of Hostess products, he fills his pockets full of "Life 
Savers," and enough bubble gum to last all day.  He is also very thirsty, 
so what does he drink?  "The Real Thing" of course, with approximately 8 
teaspoons of sugar per l6 ounce bottle.  He also eats his share of peanut 
butter cups because he was told that peanuts are high in protein.  O.K., 
stay with me, we haven't gotten to lunch yet.  For lunch he goes to his 
favorite neighborhood hamburger place for a really good and nutritious 
meal (JOKE).  

He has been living on foods like this since he was old enough to point his 
finger at that pretty candy as a child.  Now those are known as the 
developing years on his TV, so you know he is building a strong body in 
9 different ways (JOKE). 

So he is now in high school and has developed some very serious problems.  
His parents take him to the school psychologist, who of course is an 
expert about what children need.  His parents are told he is hyperactive, so 
they go to their medical doctor to get the poor kid fixed.  He prescribes 
something magical to help the child concentrate.  The child has also by 
this time started to develop rather severe headaches and stomach aches.  

So the wise doctor prescribes 3 different drugs to cure this poor child.  
Now, a few months later, this child is starting to show other symptoms, 
like his inability to concentrate, severe mood swings, and bad sleeping 
habits, not to mention gaining 20 pounds. 

Now, this poor child is about 16 years old, has been raised on this lousy 
diet all his life, been taking drugs for the symptoms associated and 
caused by eating this way, and he has just discovered something his father 
has been doing since he can remember, drinking alcohol.  Did you know that 
alcohol is the most widely abused drug in this country?  Of course, now 
he's cool, 'cause he drinks with his friends, who had good examples to 
follow, their fathers.    

A few more years go by and he is having trouble in college.  You see, he 
never could make up his mind and didn't want to be there in the first 
place.  Now he finally finds the greatest, most fun thing he has ever 
experienced, recreational drugs; marijuana, cocaine, and speed.  Of course 
he sees nothing wrong with taking his own drugs, after all, even his doctor 
prescribed drugs for him when he was in his formative years. 

Need I go further?  Now he is a businessman, where good judgment is 
what counts, except he has never never been prepared for the working 
world.  Now this poor child is expected to be creative, productive, and 
enthusiastic about his new job.   

What we have here is a typical adult raised in the 1950's and 60's.  Give  
him enough rope and he has hung himself.  Back to Hypoglycemia. 

The body is designed to work like a finely tuned machine.  The only 
difference is that a machine can have it's worn out parts replaced.  We 
are stuck with what we have created. 

You should understand that with Hypoglycemia the pancreas has develop-
ed a trigger-response mechanism to sugar.  As soon as you ingest sugar, 
your pancreas secretes the hormone called "insulin" which has the job of 
metabolizing sugar, thereby lowering the amount of sugar in the blood 
stream.  It does its job for as many years as it can. 

Now, you learn that the way you have been eating has no future, 
because your parents and other relatives all have developed strange 
20th century diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, 
diabetes, and many other well known "Incurable Diseases."  All these 
diseases have supposed unknown causes.  It's as if one day they just 
appeared and we had nothing to do with it.   

So the drama goes on, he changes his diet and is determined to follow 
the straight and narrow path.  No more sugar, no more drinking, no more 
dairy products, no more red meat, no more white bread, no more of the 
"real thing," etc.  He now doesn't feel as good as he used to.  He blames 
it on his new eating habits.  After all he should feel better, it's been two 
months.  He now lives on salads, soy bean ice cream, and tofu.  Is this 
your idea of a good balanced vegetarian diet?  Of course not, but he 
knows no different.  

This type of diet is known as "the vegetarian junk food diet."  This is 
almost as bad as what he was doing.  This is not what is known as 
"Becoming a Vegetarian."  There are many kinds of vegetarian diets.  
My favorite is "The Macrobiotic Diet" which I have been following for 
the last zillion years. 

BACK TO HYPOGLYCEMIA... 

He now has joined the low energy, depressed, over weight, headache, 
back ache, wishing to take a nap at 3 p.m. or eat sweets in the middle 
of the day crowd.  What has happened to his poor pancreas and adrenal 
glands?  His pancreas is now spilling large amounts of insulin into his 
blood stream at the slightest taste of sugar.  The insulin reduces his 
blood sugar far below normal safe levels.  His adrenal glands interpret 
this as being a dangerous situation, so they secrete adrenaline to 
compensate for his excessively low blood sugar condition.  More time 
goes by, and now he has exhausted his adrenals as well as his pancreas.  
By now he is really in trouble.  

By this time he has developed very strange sleeping habits, so he never 
feels quite all there, sleeping when he is supposed to be awake and 
vice versa.  

The only time he really feels alive is when he eats something sweet.  
And the vicious circle goes on and on.  How does this all relate to 
diabetes, one of our favorite and most popular diseases?  

Hypoglycemia is the precursor to Diabetes.  When the pancreas has 
become so fatigued that it cannot do its job anymore, we now go back 
to that wonderful doctor for more help.  Now he has us take insulin 
because we have destroyed our pancreas.  What about the side effects 
related to use of insulin, the breakdown of the cardiovascular system, 
diabetic retinopathy, and kidney failure, just to mention a few.  

Does he ever ask you about your diet?  Maybe, but what does he tell 
you to do about it?  Eat a well balanced diet.  And what is a well 
balanced diet?  

Eat from the 4 basic food groups.  (JOKE, JOKE)  There is hope.  
Read as many books, talk to as many people as you can, go to 
somebody who follows his own advice, and take responsibility for 
your own health. 

I would like to give you some basic guidelines to follow when improving  
your diet and eating habits. 

1.  Avoid the all white products, this includes sugar, flour and milk.   
Soy products are a good substitute to eat instead of dairy products. 

2.  Avoid red meat, pork, cold cuts, and any other kind of meat that 
has been either raised with chemicals or hormones in the feed, or has 
been injected or treated with these chemicals or hormones.  If you are 
really attached to meat and think you really need it, go to a health 
food store that sells organically grown meat.  The price is probably 
more, but it is well worth it, for your health's sake. 

3.  Make sure you eat plenty of fresh vegetables.  Avoid canned or  
frozen vegetables. 

4.  Do not use margarine, it is very bad for your system.  The melting 
point of margarine is 110 degrees; it only makes sense that if your 
body temperature is 98.6, how can it melt down margarine? 

5.  Introduce whole grains into your daily diet.  This will give you the 
necessary complex carbohydrates you need to produce energy as well 
as give you necessary vitamins and minerals that have been removed 
from the other fast food, junk food you have been used to eating. 

6.  Read about nutrition and try to match up your personal needs.  Be  
practical. 

7.  Get sufficient amounts of the right kind of exercise that suits your 
personality and body condition.  Sleep enough for your particular body 
chemistry.  Some people require only a few hours of sleep, while others 
think they need 8-10 hours.  For those who feel they need 8-10 hours, 
you might find you require considerably less when you improve your 
daily diet. 

6 hours should be enough for most people.  In my experience over the 
last decade, I have seen many people lose weight as a side benefit of 
improving their daily lifestyle and diet. 

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN CONVERTING TO VEGETARIANISM

What to expect when converting from a traditional "meat and potato 
diet," to a vegetarian diet?  At first, one would think the transition 
to a better diet would be an automatic increase and upscale in energy 
and the feeling of well being.  Well, I've got news for you, as soon 
as you start to improve your diet, your body starts to discharge poisons 
at the same time. 

This discharge comes along with many symptoms.  The novice vegetarian 
should not become scared or upset, but should rather view these 
symptoms of change as a small price to pay for a large benefit. 

SYMPTOMS REFLECT IMPROVING YOUR HEALTH

Some of the symptoms are many different kinds of discharges.  Through 
your nose or mouth as respiratory discharge.  This might feel as if you 
have a cold you never seem to get over.  It is not.  It is part of the 
cleansing process associated with improving your diet and health in 
general.  Over the counter drugs should not be taken to suppress these 
symptoms.  Taking these drugs will only inhibit and extend your 
detoxification process. 

Mucus might be released through your digestive system when you move 
your bowels.  Your bowel movements will be different than ever before.  

You will fill the toilet up many times and not be able to figure out 
where all this feces came from.  It has been stored in your colon for 
many years and has just recently begun to be released.  Remember, you 
have been "full of shit" for a long time and it's about time to clean 
it up.  

You will actually have bowel movements that can weigh 5 to 7 pounds 
and come out all at one time.  You will be shocked in the toilet at 
what you will find and at the huge amount.  Don't be afraid.  It is 
your body saying, "O.K., let this come out now."  You might and pro-
bably will crave exactly the foods you are getting out of your system.  

It is not uncommon to crave chocolate and many other foods you have 
recently decided to give up for you health. 

Even skin eruptions are common during this time.  You are not having 
your second puberty, and it won't last for long. 

When you become a vegetarian, you turn off the incoming flow of poisons 
and extra fats, acids, additives and many other chemicals and toxins 
that are contained in meat.  Your body starts to work more efficiently 
in a more pure and refined way.  It throws these poisons out of the 
body in a relatively high volume.

THE FOUR AVENUES OF DETOXIFICATION

These four avenues of detoxification are all our body has to deal with 
the abuse we have subjected ourselves to our whole life.  Many variat- 
ions or groups of symptoms can come out, individually or in combination 
with others.  It is important not to try to inhibit this process by 
taking prescription or over the counter drugs.  You must let nature take 
it's course.  Wait it out, it is great for you in the long run.  

There are only four avenues of excretion for your body to use in the 
detoxification process.  1) Your respiratory system, via your lungs, 
mouth, and nose.  2) Your digestive system via your intestines.  3) 
Your skin, via pores.  4)	You urinary system, via your kidneys and 
bladder.  5) Your perspiration and body odor system, which is related 
to your skin, but involves other processes also. 

WHAT IS COLONIC IRRIGATION?

Colonic Irrigation or "Colonics" as it is also called, can be thought of 
as huge enemas that consist of 15 to 20 gallons of fresh water.  This 
water enters your "back door" (anus) 6 to 8 ounces at a time and drains 
out using gravity.  There are a few other methods but I don't advise them 
at all.  The gravity method is named "The Woods Method."  With the bottle 
hanging high over head, with the intake hose leading in and the waste hose 
draining the water out, is in my opinion, the best.  

"The Woods Method" is safe.  

With the other methods, if you are using a machine, possibly the machine 
could have a problem with one of the controls or gauges.  It all depends 
on the technician performing this service.  I personally trust a natural 
method more than a machine for this function.  They might be safe, but 
make your own choices. 

"Colonics" flush out your lower bowel (large intestine).  One important 
maneuver to have the colon therapist do is to close your illeo-cecal valve.  
It is a very simple Chiropractic maneuver used to keep water from entering 
the small intestine.  There are a few good books on "Colonic Irrigation 
and cleansing your colon."  You should read them yourself and make 
your own health improvement decisions. 

"Colonic Irrigation" is an important part of discharging toxins from your 
body.  "Colonic Irrigation" is really not to be used for losing weight, but 
might help in the initial stages of upgrading your diet.  "Colonic Irrigation" 
is helpful in removing old, stuck feces out of your lower bowel which may 
poison your body.  Everything is O.K. in moderation.  Don't become a  
"colonic junkie." 

JUNK FOOD VEGETARIANISM

I was a "Junk food vegetarian" for the first two years of my new 
vegetarian lifestyle.  The only thing I did personally to improve my diet 
was remove meat from it.  THIS IS NOT SUFFICIENT!!!  I started this 
new way of life in 1973.  In 1975 I asked my Tai Chi Master for some 
guidance concerning a diet that would help me develop my internal 
energy and Tai Chi ability, A.S.A.P. 

Information in those days was extremely limited.  "Food combining and 
the Natural Hygienist approach" existed, but it was too complicated, rigid, 
and wimpy for my personality, body type, constitution and purposes. 

FIBER, THE THREAD OF LIFE

Fiber is indigestible.  You eat it, it passes straight through without 
breaking down.  However, fiber attracts water.  That's why, if you're 
Ionstipated and you take some sort of fiber laxative, the fiber attracts 
water which puts more fluid in your feces, which makes it easier to more 
your bowels. 

Let me make this a little more clear.  When you first become a vegetarian, 
your body is very responsive and goes through a shift where, as soon as 
you take the meat out of your diet, your body goes "Oh boy, freedom!" 
but that freedom doesn't last very long.  It only lasts until you actually 
get the food that you have eaten out of your system.  After your body 
gets used to the new way of eating, it will try to go back to the old way 
of eating.   

That's why you have to go on a long-term maintenance diet.  If you 
don't have enough fiber in your diet, you will get locked up.  When 
you eat white bread, white rice, and the rest of the "dead white" 
unnutritious foods, it's like eating glue, and that's exactly what it does 
to your insides, binds you up.  So what you're going to have to do is, get 
the fiber in. 

On of the best ways of getting fiber in your diet is not by taking fiber 
tablets, which does work, but by eating whole grains.  Examples are  
barley, brown rice, millet, etc.  Whole grains have fiber in them.  
Vegetables, semi cooked, have fiber in them.  The more you cook 
vegetables, the softer the vegetable fiber (cellulose) gets.  Remember, 
fiber is an indigestible material.  It's like a course thread that runs 
throughout many whole foods.  

Fiber is like "burlap" underneath felt, if you can imagine this combination.  
Felt could be considered the actual nutrients whereas burlap is like the 
course material that holds it together. 

"Colonics" really do fall into place here.  "Colonics" is natural.  Right 
about now you are probably thinking that that much water water is 
not natural to have in your colon.  You're right, but compared to your 
other options, like mineral oil, water is the best way of flushing yourself 
out.  Besides the way you had to eat to need "Colonics" hasn't exactly 
been the most natural way of eating.  Mineral oil just lubricates the walls 
of your colon and does not really clean out any of the old feces.  

You've had "old shit" stuck in you for a long time.   The water will help 
flush it out. 

Question:  Have you ever moved your bowels and felt like you never 
had to do it again for the rest of your life?  This is the kind of bowel 
movement I am talking about when you finally clean your body out, as 
opposed to feeling like you just never get enough out. 

(Go to Dr. Moon's web site for his In-Home Colonic Machine)

DIFFERENT KINDS OF VEGETARIANS

In my opinion, there are a few different reasons for turning toward a  
vegetarian lifestyle and diet.  You must make your own choices. 
For spiritual reasons, because you don't believe in killing animals for 
food purposes.  This approach sounds respectable at first but has some 
serious holes in it.  I have seen some of the most weird and wimpy people 
hold these beliefs.  Some people won't even wear leather shoes or belts, 
because the cow was killed to make them. 

Next we have the vegetarian who does not like the way meat tastes.  I 
rarely meet people who are vegetarians for this reason, but they are out 
there.  When you meet them, you will not forget them.  Don't talk loud to 
them or they will get scared from your aggressive behavior and go hide  
somewhere. 

And at last, you have what I call a practical vegetarian.  This type is a 
person who avoids eating meat, not because the cow had to sacrifice her 
life to feed you, or because meat tastes bad, but because meat is simply 
not good for your health.  Learn about all the chemical additives put in the 
meat.  All those great cancer causing agents and how they increase the 
taste and preserve the shelf life of our modern food.  Educate yourself.  

You will not see this on TV for many years.  Quality is more important than 
quantity.  I'm not suggesting that you only eat "organically grown."  That 
is sometimes impossible as well as impractical.  The cost factor I do not 
believe should be that important.  If it is, you have more concerns than 
food and should take a good look at your relationship with money, prosperity 
and self-deserving issues. 

I am this last brand of vegetarian, plus an added aspect.  I couldn't care 
less about the cow giving her life.  The Internal Sensitivity Diet 
encompasses the practical health reasons for becoming a vegetarian and 
very specific factors for helping you to develop and cultivate your internal  
energy through Chi Kung. 

Much of this material will be explored in more detail in my next book.  To 
include an extensive "Health Chapter" would make the size of this book 
impractical.  My next book will go much more into detail.  I will include 
Orthomolecular Nutrition, specific sexual techniques, and much more. 

I have students and friends that I have put on the diet many years ago and 
their weight has gone up and down repeatedly.  I have a friend that 
switched to a vegetarian diet and lost weight very quickly.  I have had 
relatively skinny people with no previous weight problems or concerns 
lose between 20 and 25 pounds without even trying. 

After he had been on the diet for a few years, he had put the weight back 
on in a healthy way.  Instead of being very skinny with a large pooch, and 
looking like an over fed snake, he had filled out.  Improving your diet is 
an excellent step in preventative health maintenance. 

It is very common to crave the foods that are your personal poisons, that  
you are discharging once you've stopped their intake. 

COMPARING POISONS

Concerning coffee, coffee is the least of your problems.  Concerning sugar, 
sugar is the worst of your problems, not counting drugs, alcohol, and other 
intoxicants.  Alcohol is very bad.  Alcohol offsets your sugar metabolism 
system as well as killing brain cells.  The hang over effect related to 
drinking alcohol in my opinion is the sugar imbalance experienced the day 
after after the metabolic stress put on your pancreas and adrenal glands. 

MORE ABOUT HYPOGLYCEMIA

You see, the pancreas produces a hormone called insulin.  What many people 
do not know is that the function of the adrenal glands is to assist the 
pancreas in stabilizing sugar levels.  Continued use of alcohol, which 
is interpreted as concentrated sugar by the body,  leads to a very common 
chronic, wide spread illness called "hypoglycemia."  Hypoglycemia is much 
more wide spread than most health care practitioners would admit. 

Yes, a glucose tolerance test (GTT) would show in extreme cases of hypo-
glycemia, but it is very rough on your body to sit through the actual 
test.  For all practical purposes it won't really tell you anymore than what 
you already suspected.  You can skip the test and assume you have a blood 
sugar problem.  There are many books on the subject.  My favorite is a book 
called Sugar Blues by William Dufty.

Read it, it will enlighten you to this common human ailment. 

Remember, even if you have a GTT and you show a normal blood sugar 
curve, realize who "normal" is referring to.  Many people have 
hypoglycemia and have no "irregularities" according to the glucose 
tolerance test. 

Hypoglycemia is a precursor to diabetes, which is one of the most wide-
spread killers of all time.  One out of 7 dies from diabetes every year, 
not to mention the other related diseases like kidney disease, heart 
disease, cardiovascular disease and many more.  Read and educate yourself.  
The books are available.

PART #1 OF THE NUTRITIONAL PIE

THE CHI KUNG INTERNAL SENSITIVITY DIET

I am a "physical" person and I work in the world as a "physical" person.  
My relationship with nutrition is also as a "physical" person.  This is 
not 1973-1974.  Since those days many nutritional discoveries and  
breakthroughs have taken place. 

In 1975, my Tai Chi Master (Master Waysun Liao) put me on "the traditional 
monk diet."  In 1976, I discovered The Macrobiotic Diet, which was nearly 
the same without ginger, garlic, and onions.  These spices tend to raise 
your sex drive which is not preferred in the very beginning when you are 
becoming a celebrate monk.  

To raise your sex drive after you have developed your Chi Kung foundation 
is a different story.  This has been explained in another section of my 
book.

The Traditional Monk Diet and The Macrobiotic Diet includes eating no 
meat and no chicken due to unhealthy added hormones (estrogen).  The 
Macrobiotic Diet consists of whole grains, fresh vegetables, locally grown 
and seasonally grown fruit, soy products such as tofu, tempeh, and miso.  
Seaweed is also added to the diet to help supply many important minerals.  

The method of cooking is somewhat important in this way of eating.  Don't  
over cook your food. 

I personally have been suggesting taking vitamins for many years because 
it has been proven that most of the food we have available to us is 
deficient in many important nutrients.  I don't believe the food is enough.   

You must take nutritional supplements in a smart fashion.  Being on the 
basic monk diet combined with being celibate for two and a half years led 
me to developing my "internal sensitivity," which led to developing my 
"internal power" (Jing) and my Tai Chi / Chi Kung ability. 

Those years were the most important in my development and progress. 
Many other teachers tell their students not to become celibate, not to 
become vegetarians, to eat what feels best.  I strongly disagree.  I just 
think they don't know, are ignoring their students welfare, or are just not 
willing to truly give their support.  I believe celibacy is important for 
certain people, for certain reasons, but not for everybody.  

Changing your diet, however, is a very important part of the meditation and 
energy cultivation system.  But do not become "over anxious" about your diet.  

It's not that important for everybody, but for certain people, who can do it, 
it will be more important.  

Your Chi Kung is the first place to start.

Dietary improvements will come naturally after you stabilize. 

Many people are afraid that they have to do everything at the same time; 
i.e., change their diet, give up sex, quit smoking, quit drinking, avoiding 
sweets, etc.  This is not true.  You do not have to change your diet, give up 
sex (masturbation included), sleep only 4 hours per night, practice 6 hours 
per day, take ice cold showers, or quit your job.  Anyone that thinks he has 
to do all these things, all at the same time, is not understanding what the 
true message is in this book. 

Changes are good, but only if you make choices yourself, not because someone 
told you to or you read it in a book.  Make up your own mind.

PART #2 OF THE NUTRITIONAL PIE

PROPER NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION

You are what you eat.  You are what you assimilate, and always keep this 
in mind as you read this chapter. 

Due to space limitations and the need to explain this topic very 
thoroughly, I am only briefly touching on the section on "Nutritional 
Supplementation."  I will include "Orthomolecular Nutrition" in my next  
book. 

Because I have an acupuncture, Chiropractic, and a Tai Chi background, the 
applications that I will use to explain the nutritional approach connected 
to the practice of Chi Kung, will be quite simple. 

There are two halves to the whole.  The first half, and not necessarily the 
most important but equal at least, is your diet: the food you put in your 
body.  Your diet has a relationship with what is actually assimilated, but 
the food you eat is not necessarily what you assimilate.  There is a great 
deal of loss, depending on the quality of the food, how it's cooked, and 
what it is.  Nutritional supplements are very important in these days of 
depleted food.  However, I cannot attempt to satisfactorily cover this 
topic now.  It will be included in my next book.  In the mean time, read 
and educate yourself. 

PERSPIRATION & SHOWERS

Perspiration is an important bodily secretion.  Besides it's traditional 
functions, such as stabilizing body fluids, temperature, and operation, 
it is also a way for discharging poisons from the body.  Sweating is an 
Jimportant, yet commonly ignored function.  When they begin practicing Chi 
Kung, I advise my students to take normal warm to hot showers followed 
by an ice cold showers, immediately upon rising, before starting the daily  
Chi Kung or Tai Chi practice. 

There are a few good reasons for this.  1) The hot/warm shower starts 
your circulation as if you were awake a longer time, 2) the hot/warm 
shower gets the stiffness out of your joints so your practice can be more 
productive, 3) by ending your morning shower with a very cold final rinse, 
it stimulates your spirit and drives your internal energy into the center 
core of your torso, which is very similar and helpful to the results of 
Condensing Breathing.  The obvious effects of the cold shower are it will 
wake you up immediately which is also a by-product of practicing Chi  
Kung. 

Taking the cold showers in the morning is like getting on the expressway 
in the morning at "the speed of traffic."  Without the showers, it's like 
creeping along like some old man that shouldn't be on the expressway in  
the first place. 

TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SWEAT

Body odor is related to body detoxification.  As you practice, you will 
notice there are 2 distinct types of sweat.  The thin, almost watery type 
with very little odor, which is related to regulating your body temper-
ature.  

The second is a more thick and smelly kind of sweat.  This second type is 
related to body detoxification and should be washed off after completion 
of your Chi Kung practice.  You should not take showers immediately 
following your practice.  You will lose valuable body heat and confuse 
your internal energy.  Wait until you cool down before taking your after 
practice shower.  If you take a combined shower (hot & cold) before your 
daily practice, it will cut down greatly your accumulated body odor. 

SINUS FLUSHING - BLOWING YOUR NOSE AT DRUGS

Many times sinus headaches, respiratory problems that do not involve the 
lungs and bronchial tubes or sinus problems show up when you change your 
diet.  It's normal, don't worry.  If somebody that has chronic sinus 
problems wants to alleviate the problem himself, instead of taking an 
over-the-counter drug or prescription for it, it would only take about 10  
$minutes in the beginning of the day. 

This self-maintenance step is to inhale relatively warm water into your 
nose and gag it out your mouth.  It sounds terrible but will work wonders 
for your chronic sinus problems.  This will almost guarantee you a winter 
without a cold, if only done regularly.  You should see results with this 
technique after doing it only a few times.  It will seem impossible at 
first, be persistent.  It really works, almost immediately. 

ANTIBIOTICS ARE NOT "HARMLESS" OR "WONDERFUL"

Many many people rely on their medical doctors much more than they 
should.  I have seen many instances where people catch colds, and what do 
they do but they run to the doctor and the doctor gives them an antibiotic 
and tells them that this will help.  Actually, it really doesn't.  The cold 
just runs its course.  Taking antibiotics... many times upsets the normal 
balance of intestinal flora and friendly bacteria normally present in the 
intestine.  Candita Albicans, a fungus normally present in the body, can 
multiply to a degree that can be very unhealthy, with many serious and 
diverse symptoms.  Don't take antibiotics unless you absolutely have to.  

There are two books you should read concerning Candita Albicans: one is by 
Orian Truss M.D. and the other is by William Crooks M.D.  They are both on  
my suggested reading list.

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