Patients always ask: should I fast? And what they are usually asking me is: should I water fast one day a week or occasionally? But that’s not the most important fast. The most important fast is fasting from a standard American diet and lifestyle. This is what we teach in the Seven Basic Steps to Total Health at total Health Institute, and have been teaching for the last 36 years. The most important fast is to fast from eating cooked, toxic, inflammatory foods. Just look to nature and you see the answer. The largest animals that walk the face of the earth eat living leaves and living grass. Even the carnivores eat it living. So this is the first and most important lesson in fasting. Eat as much living/raw plant food as you can, and never more than 20% of your diet should be cooked.
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Move or die prematurely
Going through post graduate study, one of my most Impressive professors made a statement that has always stuck with me. He said this simple phrase: life is motion.
Everything in the body, from the cellular level on up, is in constant motion. Without motion life would cease to exist. So it just makes sense if it’s that way on the cellular level you must move your body in order to keep these cells healthy. We teach a number of exercise protocols at total Health Institute, and they are addressed in the lesson: Exercise Parts 1 & 2, and Going Deeper in the Seven Basic Steps Part 2, but for now just start moving. Walk instead of drive, go up and down the stairs 10 times in a row. Start Riding your bike instead of driving everywhere. The more you move, the better you will feel, and the longer you will probably live.
How much sleep do I need?
Over the last 36 years patients have asked me how much sleep do I need? Many continue saying my body does fine with five hours of sleep I’ve been doing that for the last 50 years and I feel great. Well my answer has nothing to do with feelings, it has to do with physiology. All healing in the body is done when you are asleep during the day your body is constantly being broken down — it’s what we call catabolic. In the night when you are sleeping, that is when the cells are repairing and regenerating — it is what we call anabolic. Sleep studies have shown that the ideal amount of sleep is approximately 9.5 hours per day or more. Einstein said he needed more than this to function and allow his mind the capabilities it had. So start working to get more sleep, and most importantly more pre-midnight sleep, which has a one and a half bonus effect.
Oxygen — the most vital nutrient
Nutrients are what your cells require to stay alive, to be healthy, and reproduce. Without sufficient nutrients cells die prematurely or become malignant. We all talk about vitamins and minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates, but what about the most vital nutrient of all — the one that your cells must have, and if they don’t you physical die within minutes. That most vital nutrient is Oxygen, and Oxygen comes from deep diaphragm breathing, exercise, and eating foods that have chlorophyll in them, especially living and raw green plants. Most pathogens including cancer are anaerobic: that means they live well without oxygen — very different from your normal healthy cells which must have oxygen to live. So do you want to know how to get cancer? Eat a standard American diet devoid of living and raw greens, Eat a lot of oxygen-depleting foods like cooked animal fats and proteins, get little to no exercise, and do not deep diaphragm breathe.
Who are YOU?
All you have to say is: who made you? Just start there. Who made you? Did your mother and father make you? No, they did not. You were made by God — you have to be — it’s too awesome what happens. To see that the two cells coming together that make your body as miraculous as that is it still not the real you. These cell aren’t you, they are not your spirit. You are not flesh, because the flesh will die.
Spirit will never die. So see yourself as Jesus was on the Mount of transfiguration. He was all lit up. He had a form, he had a body, but he was lit up. That’s our real body. It’s a body of light. It’s not a body made of this 2 pounds of dirt, but a body of light. It’s just an extension of God our father. It’s not our mind that we’ve developed through study and training: the best that mind can get is like Einstein, and that’s nothing compared to the mind of God, which is our true mind when we are in him. You wouldn’t have anything better than God your father.
So there would be nothing to figure out: you’d be better than Einstein, you’d be better than everyone, because you have the answer just like Jesus did because God would be speaking to you constantly, just as he did to Jesus.
So the only thing we struggle with is thinking that this mind and body are us. And if this is us, we have to work harder to make this better. This is never going to be better. It might be better today, but it’ll get worse tomorrow, but see when you live from the real YOU. This shines so much energy and light it actually will start shining back into this flesh. And that’s what you call healing. Healing is when you’re walking in the lightness and the Joy and the Peace of who you ARE, not who you are not. If you live as physical being absolute, you are set up for a fall. You go to the doctor and he’s analyzing your physical body and the doctor says you’re better today, so you think you’re better today, right? That means nothing because the doctor could say you’re worse tomorrow. So one day you’re happy, the next day you’re sad in this place, in this mind and in this body.
In your true mind, the mind of Christ and your true body, the body of Christ, it has no bad days. It’s never going to have a bad day because Daddy’s never going to see you as a bad girl or boy. You only perfect in Daddy’s Eyes, and the more you get that revelation, the lighter you become and the things don’t weigh you down — you don’t worry so much about things.
This is like me telling you that your car has dents in it. I know but you’re not the car, you just drive the car. This car might always have dents in it. Well, that’s okay, but you’re not the car. Now some people do define themselves by their car, but that is incorrect and stressful. So you should define Yourself by who you ARE, not what you drive, or what body you live in, or what mind you live in because that’s not your mind or your body. You are God’s son, you are God’s daughter, and you have his mind, his thoughts, his love, his truth, his life, and his body — which are eternal. That’s who YOU are right now!
How can I do better on my diet?
A patient came in and asked me how can I do better on my diet? I’ve been doing this program for many years, but at times I still backslide. I told her to purchase a glucose meter and take your blood sugar before the meal, one hour after the meal, and two hours after meal. Make a chart and bring it to me and I’ll show you how this tool can be used to improve your diet and your health.
This is covered in detail in the lesson Nemec New Medicine 1