Water fluoridation may may one of the most serious health crimes ever committed against those whose water contains it.

The fluoride in your water is actually toxic waste left over after the manufacture of aluminum and chemical fertilizers. – Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride, The Aging Factor

Before the 1950’s fluoride was used primarily as a rat and insect poison. Hitler used fluoride to dumb-down prisoners and make them submissive to authority. Fluorine was the critical element that made the atomic bomb possible. After the war big industrial plants faced increased lawsuits stemming from death and injuries caused from fluoride contamination of nearby communities. Faced with lawsuits and hefty disposal costs of this environmentally hazardous waste product, a scheme was devised to add fluoride to the water supply, a plan easily sold to an as-usual gullible American public by spin doctors like Edward Bernays.

The facts against fluoride are overwhelming which is why you will not find one government proponent willing to debate the issue publicly.

Injecting fluoride into the water supply is mass medication of the population and this reason alone makes it unlawful and immoral.

Fluoride is a cheap way for industry to dispose of its toxic waste.

H. Trendly Dean, the original promoter of water fluoridation, admitted under oath in 1955 that it doesn’t work as a remedy for tooth decay.– Fluoride, Vol. 14, No. 3, July 1981

There are so many adverse health effects caused by ingesting fluoride it is mind boggling. What’s worse is that public health officials support this poisoning of the water supply which is just one more reason you cannot rely on the government to look after your health.

Here’s a small list of fluoride issues taken from Paul Bragg’s Water! The Shocking Truth!

• Tooth decay has declined worldwide, with no difference between countries with or without water fluoridation. – Health Action Network

• In a five year study conducted to test fluoride as a treatment for osteoporosis, bone density was actually decreased 45%, therefore causing osteoporosis, rather than preventing it! The doses used were very close to the amount Americans take in over a fifty year span. – Bone, Vol. 15, 1994

• One study concluded that males under the age of 20 who live in areas with fluoridated water were six times more likely to suffer from bone cancer than males who don’t. – New Jersey Department of Health

• When a claimed 20% decrease in tooth decay is compared to a 600% increase in bone cancer or a 41% increase in hip fractures, when the cost of a tooth filling is compared to the cost of a hip fracture or cancer treatment, it is obvious that the human and economic costs of fluoridation are staggering. – Health Action Network – www.hans.org

If you are an athlete consuming large amounts of fluoridated water, and filtering does not remove fluoride, it is potentially gradually making you stupid and sick in a variety of sinister ways.

I know this sounds harsh but the history of how fluoride got into the water supply is more shocking than any movie Hollywood could produce and it is not fiction.

• “I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years’ research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine–any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically.” - chemist Charles Perkins, 1954

• “Fluoride is more toxic than Lead and only marginally less toxic than Arsenic.”- Clinical Toxicology of Commercial products, 5th Ed. 1984

• “The level of fluoride the government allows the public is based on scientifically fraudulent information and altered reports. People can be harmed simply by drinking water.” - Dr. Robert Carton, Ph.D, former Environmental Protection Agency Scientist (20 years), Food & Water Journal, Summer 1998

• “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time.” - Robert Carton, Ph.D. former US EPA scientist

• “The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty.” - chemist Charles Perkins, 1954

• “Fluoride is a carcinogen by any standard we use. I believe the EPA should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity, and other effects.” - Dr. William Marcus, Ph.D, Environmental Protection Agency Scientist, Food & Water Journal, Summer 1998

• “Based on data from the National Academy of Sciences, current levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water may cause arthritis in a substantial portion of the population long before they reach old age.” - Dr. Robert Carton, former EPA Scientist

• “I know of absolutely no, and I mean absolutely no means of prevention that would save so many lives as simply to stop fluoridation, or don’t start it where it is otherwise going to be started. There you might save 30,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 lives a year, cancer lives. That is an awful lot of lives a year.”

• Dr. Dean Burk Ph.D. (34 years at the National Cancer Institute). Judicial hearing, January 14, 1982. Safe Water Foundation vs. City of Houston, District Court of Texas, Harris County, 151st Judicial District, 80-52271

• “As a toxicologist involved in fluoride research for over ten years, I was stunned by the Calgary Regional Health Authority’s glib comments proclaiming water fluoridation safe. The ‘fifty years’ of studies about fluoride safety, do not exist. The “ongoing intensive research on fluorides and fluoridation’, does not exist, certainly none investigating safety.” - Dr. P. Mullenix, Ph.D., research scientist, 1997 letter to Calgary Councillors

• “Fluoride is an accumulative poison which accumulates in the skeletal structures, including the teeth, when the body is exposed to small daily intakes of this element. …it is like lead accumulation in the bone until saturation occurs and then lead poisoning sets in.” - Dr. P.H. Phillips, biochemist, University of Wisconsin

• “It’s a toxic waste product of many types of industry; for instance, glass production, phosphate fertilizer production and many others. They would have no way to dispose of the tons of fluoride waste they produce unless they could find some use for it, so they made up this story about it being good for dental health. Then they can pass it through everyone’s bodies and into the sewer. It is a well coordinated effort, to keep it from being declared for what it is -a toxic waste.” - Dr. John R. Lee, former chairman of Marin County, CA Environmental Health Committee

At this point for any health professional to support the fluoridation of water means they are simply ignorant of the facts, too proud to admit they have been wrong or they are part of the problem.

Over 1500 ( FIFTEEN HUNDRED) health professionals believe so much that fluoride is unhealthful they have signed a petition to stop the fluoridation of water, go HERE to see it.

I highly recommend you spend a few hours researching this for yourself. Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here are good places to start.

If you drink water with fluoride in it, especially if you are an athlete who drinks increased amounts, don’t drink another single drop until you watch this 30 minute video!!

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Living raw foods will have a dramatic impact on your health, vitality and BEAUTY!!

The video should be watched in conjunction with this article.

Friends I believe one of the most powerful changes you can make to daily routine is to start making a conscience effort to incorporate more living foods into your diet while cutting back on cooked foods.

This article explains why incorporating living foods into your daily life could have a dramatic impact on your overall health, fitness level and appearance.

Growing up in today’s modern society we tend to believe that eating cooked or processed foods is completely normal and bears no negative consequence to our health and vitality.

Nothing could be further from reality.

I agree people are living longer today but being alive and living are two different things.

More than ever there is an epidemic of fat unhealthy people who only live longer because the very same corporate machine that feeds them unhealthy foods profits again by selling them drugs and medical procedures that would not be needed if more people just realized and ACTED on the information that I’m sharing with you here.

We are energy.

A little higher up on the matter ladder we are a collection of gazillions of individual life forms known as our cells.

I know this is well known to any six grader but sometimes we have to look at stuff in a simple way for it to make the most impact.

When you look in the mirror what looks back is the result of the hard work of the 100 trillion or so cells that make you, you.

All of your cells come from pre-existing cells, in other words new cells are born out of existing cells.

Your cells ARE the engines of your life.

When we are young, our cells are vigorous and split forming exact replicas of themselves but as we age our cells tire and the new cells are not perfect copies which results in the “signs of aging.”

Why do our cells stop working at optimal levels?

One big reason is the foods we eat.

There are a variety of circumstances that cause aging but DIET IS A HUGE FACTOR!

One of many cellular functions is to take in organic matter (food) so mitochondria can convert the energy to ATP through the oxidative phosphorylation process.

In other words your cells are the engines of your life and these engines are FUELED by the FOOD YOU EAT.

Like a race car engine, feed your engines top quality fuel and you will get top quality performance. Feed your engines poor quality fuel and you will end up losing the race.

What is the best fuel you can supply your cells with?

Living raw foods.

Today food is more abundant and convenient than ever and people are eating more of it but because our engines cannot use most of this worthless fuel so most of it goes right to the love handles.

People are eating more but starving nutritionally and aging in the process.

Cells thrive on a good balance of healthy fats, quality carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals.

For the purpose of this article we are not going to discuss why cooked and/or processed foods lack one or many of these vital ingredients because there is another component of life junk foods lack that has an even greater effect on your health and wellness.

Enzymes.

Cells are the engines of your life and enzymes are the catalyst of it.

“Enzymes are the catalysts of every chemical reaction in our bodies. Without them, there can be no cellular division, immune system functioning, energy production nor brain activity. No vitamins or hormones can do their work without enzymes…

…More importantly, it has been demonstrated that our bodies produce a finite lifetime supply of enzymes. Every cooked meal we eat causes enzyme production that draws on our finite reserve. A living food meal does not cause this drain.

This can help us understand why an 85 year old has only 1/30 the enzyme activity level of an 18 year old. Aging is really nothing more than running out of enzymes. Cells stop dividing, our immune system fails to handle challenges it managed easily when we were younger.

Our enzyme reserve is depleted over a lifetime of eating cooked food. In 1930, Dr. Paul Kouchakoff found that when we eat cooked food, our bodies attack it with leukocytes, the white blood cells that are the cornerstone of our immune system. These cells bring enzymes to the cooked food in an attempt to break it down and get rid of it.

Our bodies actually treat cooked food as a foreign invader.

No leukocytes are produced when living food is eaten. It is a tremendous burden on our body to produce digestive enzymes and leukocytes.” - Source

It’s still debated about how much enzymes from living foods are able to be utilized by the body but one thing is certain, when you eat living foods your body’s finite supply of enzymes is not called upon to digest it like it is when you eat cooked, dead foods.

Cooking kills the beneficial enzymes in food.

“When the body is given and abundance of enzymes through Living Foods, the body can stop exhausting its own supply of enzymes for the sole purpose of digestion of food. The body’s enzymes can now break down the excess fat, protein and clogged arteries and therefore have remarkable results for overweight people.

It is thrilling to see what enzymes can do and how they can bring about perfect physical and mental health to us. They are the real life-givers and the link to the source of life-giving energy, which we need for survival.” - Source

Living food also has electrical energy in it that fuels your cells with electrical energy. Food has electrical energy? Maybe you’ve never heard this before because modern nutrition still applies the sorely outdated “calorie theory” to food that was developed in 1789.

” Live foods enhance the electrical potential of our cells, between the cells, at the interface of the cell membranes, and at the interface of the cells with the microcapulary electrical charges. When cells have the microelectrical potential, they have the power to rid themselves of toxins and maintain their selective capacity to bring appropriate nutrients, oxygen and hydrogen into the nucleus of the cell, as well as feed the mitochondria. This helps maintain, repair and activate DNA.” - Gabriel Cousens, M.D. - Spiritual Nutrition -

“Say that we consume some broccoli. When we digest it, it is metabolized into carbon dioxide and water, plus the light stored from the sun and present in photosynthesis. We extract the carbon dioxide and eliminate the water, but the light, an electromagnetic wave, must get stored. When taken in by the body the energy of these photons dissipates so that it is eventually distributed over the entire spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies, from lowest to highest. This energy becomes the driving force for all the molecules in our body.” - The Field - The quest for the secret force in the universe page 43.

If you cut a piece of recently harvested fruit or vegetable and put it under a microscope, you’d see immediately it is very much alive with energy not much unlike ours.

“For I tell you truly, live only by the fire of life and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also” - Jesus Christ from The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book One by Szekeley.

When you eat fresh living foods you fuel your body with living energy.

Eating living foods means having some degree of a raw food diet.

This diet is gaining wide acceptance as more nutritionally educated individuals discover that the degenerative illnesses associated with prolonged consumption of a cooked, processed, dead food diet can be alleviated by “going raw.”

I dance in the camp that believes the raw diet is what humans are still intended to eat however I have not gone raw myself.

I do, however, consume plenty of living foods through the veggie-fruit shakes I blend and drink at least a couple times a day.

I realize it is asking a lot to say you should not eat cooked foods but consider at least to start now…

• Not eating burnt char grilled flesh

• Cutting back on cooked meats as much as possible

• Using a enzyme supplement

• Trying to eat organic as much as you can afford it

• Eating a variety of raw foods every day

Consider blending a veggie shake like the one I talk about in the video above. Since I’ve been drinking these shakes I have noticed a big difference in my skin, hair and the amount of energy I have especially right after I drink it.

My recipe uses:

• Spinach - One handful - I know, not very scientific…LOL…

• Broccoli - 1/4 of one bunch each shake

• Carrots - Two

• Apple - One

• Beets - half of a typical beet

Add water to allow for desired consistency

You can also add two scoops of the Ultimate Meal but this is optional.

I put in a lot of broccoli and spinach simply because these life giving foods have so many healthful benefits.

I know apples and carrots have a lot of sugar but the health benefits of both outweigh the fact they have natural sugar (fructose) and they make my shake taste great, no broccoli taste at all!!!

Summary

Living foods have living energy.

As much as possible, cut back on dead cooked and processed foods and attempt to incorporate living foods into your diet.

Yours in health,

Michael :o)

PS - Find a mix of veggies and fruit that you enjoy. You’ll be amazed how once you blend the veggies together with a few varieties of fruit how good it tastes. Try to add plenty of Cruciferous vegetables because the evidence that this type of vegetable provides miraculous health benefits mounts each day.

You are about to discover one of the most powerful health and fitness tips ever!

If you are looking for a way to:

• Improve your health and wellness

• Get more energy

• Increase your athletic capability

• Improve your cognitive capacity

• Improve your sleep

• Improve your skin

• Enhance your beauty…

…Then maybe the most powerful and effective way to achieve any or all of these things is to..

Learn to breathe properly!

Just by paying attention to breathing, you can access a level of your relaxation and health that will benefit every area of your life. - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

I know what you are saying…”I’ve been breathing my whole life, I know how to do it” to which I would reply that it is true you have been breathing your whole life but while as a baby you did it properly, as we grow through life we pick up many bad breathing habits that can eventually become detrimental to our health.

You don’t think about your breathing because it occurs naturally but chances are very high right now you do not breathe correctly and just by taking a little time each day to start becoming more consciously aware of your breathing and correcting any bad breathing habits you may have can make a world of difference in your life!

Breathing is Life.

In the book of Genesis it says…

“The Lord blew into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life and Adam became a living thing”.

There is a life energy that creates and flows through all living things.

Many cultures call this life-energy different things like Qi and Prana and believe that with each breathe you take, you absorb this spiritual energy into your physical body and improper breathing actually robs you of the very substance that creates life itself!

In a more scientific sense just like any machine that needs oxygen and some type of fuel to produce energy, our bodies need oxygen in order to metabolize the food we eat to produce energy.

Most health food gurus fail to mention in their fad diet books that food is useless to the body without the proper amounts of oxygen needed to metabolize it.

Like a candle, every cell in our body thrives or dies based on the amount of oxygen it receives and yet many of us are literally starving our cells of the fresh oxygen they need to thrive.

If you would like a free and easy way to improve your health, wellness, athletic performance and beauty, give serious thought two these next to tips.

The first breathing problem most of us have is that we are shallow breathers.

With every complete breath you take there is a very important exchange taking place inside your lungs.

When you inhale, you infuse the blood running through your lungs with life giving oxygen an when you exhale toxins that where in your blood like carbon dioxide are expelled through your breath.

Most people only use the top 1/3 section of their lungs when they breath which is where only about 20% or so of the blood is actually circulating!!

Shallow breathers don’t fully complete the exchange at the bottom sections of their lungs where a majority of the blood is circulating which means your blood returns to your cells full of toxins and lacking the fresh oxygen your cells need to thrive.

Slow, deep, effortless and quality breaths ARE the foundation for a health body, mind and spirit!

Here’s another breathing tip…

Many of us breathe through our mouths which is a very unhealthy thing to do. It’s said that mouth breathers are sicker more often and don’t live as long as nose breathers.

The simple reason is that the nose is designed to receive air starting with nose hairs that begin to filter the air before it reaches your lungs.

Mucus in the sinus cavities also trap bacteria and other invaders before they can find a home in your lungs. It is also here that the air is warmed and moistened making it ready to be received by your lungs.

Breathing through your mouth is like running your air conditioner or heater without the filter. When you bypass the filter, unfiltered air goes directly into your lungs just like this evaporator coil in this air-conditioning unit.

Think about this picture to the right of the debris clogging the coil (your lungs?) and make a conscious effort to start breathing through your nose and not your mouth.

Friends learning to breath properly is one of the most powerful and effective ways to improve all areas of your life.

The more oxygenated your blood is the more “alive” you will become.

Make it a point to start becoming consciously aware of your breathing throughout the day and just like you exercise your muscles, exercise your breathing and you will notice improvement in all areas of your life!

This article and video are meant to only be a primer on this subject and offers only two breathing tips for you to consider but in actuality breathing is a very complex process with many spiritual and physiological aspects that you should educate yourself on.

Helping you look and feel better longer,

Michael :o)

Originally written in January 2005

As I was sitting on Fort Lauderdale beach thinking about the year that was coming to an end and what I had accomplished during that time, I looked out to the horizon at a freighter that was waiting in line with several other ships for the tug that would eventually escort her into Port Everglades.

I thought about the crew on that ship and how slow TIME must pass for them at sea while I on the other hand I felt like TIME was flying by that day and I wish I had more of it.

What is this crazy thing time and can it really speed up and slow down?

Then I started thinking about this one commodity we are all given an equal amount of each day and while some of us are able to convert this mysterious resource into an amazing life, others continue to be enslaved by it.

What is time?

As our consciousness awakes to pre-existing events spread out over the space-time continuum, we experience what we know as time.

Imagine time as a football field on which every event in the past and every event in the future exists simultaneously.

Now image you are on this field walking from one end to the other experiencing events in successive order as you cross each yard line.

As your consciousness awakes and experiences these events on the field, you experience time. The degree you are “awake” to these events dictates your “experience” of time and your degree of consciousness.

It is said your “internal time” sets the stage for how you see time externally. Your feelings, thoughts and attitudes toward your life and events in it can make time go faster or slower.

I experienced this recently in the reception area of my dentist office as I waited to get my teeth cleaned. Time seemed to drag by.

On the other hand New Years Eve when we where out partying with friends and having fun playing with the the go-go dancers, time flew by for all of us and before we knew it we had journeyed past another point on the field of time and the new year was here.

Out of everything I’ve learned about time, how to “manage” it, set goals or make resolutions to accomplish something within a block of it, the most important thing I’ve discovered is this…

The time of NOW is the only time that we are awake to and the only time that we have total control over.

The moment of NOW is all there is and all there ever will be. Ten minutes from now, will be now. Two days, ten years from now will be now.

Now is the most valuable tool we possess but yet if you’re like me we often spend so much time in the past thinking about things we cannot change or in the future that has not come yet.

It is great to dream about the future but often we spend so much time there we fail to understand that it is the the moment of now and what we do with this time that creates our future.

My only new years resolution is to commit to make each moment of now the best and most productive I can.

The present moment of now is really a present you have sent to yourself created by thoughts, words, actions and beliefs you held in prior moments of now.

The wonderful opportunities that await us in the future are waiting to be discovered in the present, right now.

All we have to do is learn to appreciate the now and see this time for what it is, the key with the potential to unlock everything we’ve ever desired.

Make a commitment with me to be more awake to the moment of now.

Remember that you are creating the now of tomorrow, today.

May all of your “nows” in this new year be filled with joy, peace, good health and prosperity.

In the now,

Michael

Health foods can be expensive so if you are looking for a quality low-cost addition to your healthy diet I urge you to consider the seed of flax also known and linseed.

Flax seed is an amazing nutritional value, here are some of the reasons:

• Flax contains alpha-linolenic acid which is a plant-based essential omega-3 fatty acid believed to boost insulin sensitivity inside muscle cells. The cells use these fatty acids to build their cells walls with.
• Flax contains more of the plant chemical lignan than any other vegetable. Lignans are a type of antioxidant and are believed to help transport estrogen out of the body.
• Flax has both soluble and insoluble fiber.
• Flax contains a variety of vitamins and minerals essential for good health including, iron, vitamin E, the “b” vitamins, magnesium, calcium, sulfur, potassium, phosphorous, manganese, , copper, molybdenum, silicon, chromium, and cobalt, and zinc among others.

Flax may even have metaphysical properties and play a greater roll in good health then what most nutritionists know.

“Dr. Joanna Budwig from Germany, who has degrees in medicine, physics, pharmacology and biochemistry is one of the first researchers to combine an in-depth knowledge of the quantum mechanics and physics with an in-depth knowledge of human biochemistry and physiology. From this lofty scientific position, she has concluded that not only do electron-rich foods act as high-power electron donors, but they also act as solar-resonant fields in the body to attract, store and conduct the sun’s energy in our bodies. She theorizes that the photons of the sunlight, which she calls “sun electrons,” are attracted by sun-like electrons resonating in our own biological systems, especially in the double-bonded electron cloud found in our lipid systems and in the omega-3 fatty acids such as we get in flax seed. These sunlight electrons, called “pi-electrons,” have the ability within our molecular structure to attract and activate the sun photons. Dr. Budwig believes that the energy we absorb from these solar photons acts as an anti-entropy, or anti-aging, factor.

As a result of her theory, she believes that live foods, and particularly flax seeds, which contain three highly active electron clouds in the double bonds, helps bring a tremendous amount of pi-electrons into the system.” - Page 295 - Spiritual Nutrition, Gabriel Cousens M.D.

Some of the health benefits of taking flax MAY include:

• Protection against coronary heart disease
• Protection against cancer
• protection against diabetes
• Improvement of skin disorders
• Improvement of arthritis symptoms
• Lowering of cholesterol
• Many other potential benefits

The popular ways to consume flax are:

• Whole seeds
• Oil
• Ground seeds

Whole flax seeds mostly pass right through undigested so the best way to get all of the nutrients is by grinding the seeds.

I like to buy flax in bulk which is currently about $1.69 a pound in the area I live.

Buy yourself a $20 coffee grinder and grind the seeds and then put the powder into your veggie or protein shakes or maybe sprinkle it on your salads. There are countless ways you could incorporate ground flax into your recipes.

Occasionally people will tell me they’ve seen reports that flax can increase the risk of prostate cancer in men. Nothing can be further from the truth. Those reports are referring to processed destabilized Linolenic Acid found in foods like red meat and bacon, not the LA which is found in flax.

If you know of one single study that suggests flax seed is unhealthy, please forward it to me so I can read it.

Flax is a powerful food and supplies precious plant based omega-3 fatty acids that people eating a western diet usually lack. However, like anything else to much of a good thing can be bad. If you over consume flax it could throw your omega-3 / omega-6 balance off in the other direction.

For more information just do a search for flax and it won’t be hard to discover that one of the most basic of all foods is also one of the best nutritional bargains going today!

Helping you look, feel and be better…longer,

Michael

OK naked may not cut it with the neighbors but the closer you can get to it the better.

I know, it’s been pounded into our heads especially in recent years that the sun is not our friend and even minimal exposure will eventually have you in the dermatologists office getting your melanomas burnt off.

This is pure propaganda propagated by a mostly corrupt medical industry whose policies are heavily influenced by the special interests that help support it.

After all…

Getting medical treatment may be the most most dangerous thing you could ever do since the medical industry kills more people every year than any other single cause in this country.

I know that sounds harsh and you’re probably thinking about rounding up some buddies about now to hunt me down and hang me from the nearest tree but the undisputed facts are that doctors and the medical establishment have a poor track record when it comes to giving health advice.

Here is just one example, I could give many like this.

Barely fifty years ago doctors not only condoned smoking they claimed it was good for you!

Watch this 60 second commercial from the 50’s…

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I’m not saying all doctors intentionally hand out misinformation, but I do believe that the medical schools and organizations like the AMA physicians are educated by and associate with are more interested in maintaining the status quo than the integrity of health care in this country.

There are many caring compassionate allopathic health professionals in this country who do a lot of good and after all we all defend what we believe.

It is the doctor that looks beyond the medical school indoctrination and furthers their education to include a more holistic, natural approach to their practice instead of merely being a drug dispenser for the pharmaceutical industry that holds the greatest immediate hope for the health of this country.

Unfortunately many graduate from medical school with the arrogant belief that what they have been taught is the final word in human health and all else is quackery.

This is one of the problems with health care today, resistance to change even in the face of undeniable evidence to the contrary.

The truth is sunshine is good for you and reacts with your skin to produce the very precious prehormone vitamin D.

Several recent studies show that vitamin D may be one of the most powerful cancer preventatives there is, not the other way around as the sunscreen and dermatology industries would have you believe.

One study in the American Journal of Epidemiology states…

“Considerable evidence indicates that vitamin D may reduce the risk of several cancers, including breast cancer.” - SOURCE

Notice they did not say “some evidence” or even “evidence indicates” they said “considerable evidence indicates” which means it’s a pretty good chance that vitamin D may reduce the risk of several cancers.

See the study HERE.

Other studies have reached similar conclusions on the benefit of sunlight. There’s a list of over TWENTY such studies at the end of this article.

One study has found that sunlight actually slows the aging process, you can read one story HERE.

Those of us in the natural and holistic health movement have always known sensible sunlight exposure has many healthful benefits for the body, mind and soul.

“Light is the least dense form of prana in our universe. It carries the full spectrum of rainbow stimulation to our system as it filters through the subtle bodies and is taken in by the nervous system receptors in the eyes and the skin. The nerve receptors in the eye translate this full-spectrum information into optic nerve impulses that conduct it to the various brain centers: Pineal, pituitary, and the rest of the endocrine system. Through these systems it indirectly energizes and activates our whole organism and regulates body cycles and rhythms.” - Gabriel Cousens M.D. - Spiritual Nutrition

“When you put sunshine on the outside of your body and eat ample sun-grown organic fruits and vegetables, you are going to glow with more super health! - Paul Bragg Ph.D and Health Crusader

The people that sunburn easily and end up with skin problems probably do so because their skin does not contain the proper nutrients and ant-oxidants needed for protection from the potentially harmful effects of the sun. This is due to the consumption of the nutrient-depleted standard American diet (SAD).

The caveat with this whole thing is making sure you get healthy sensible sun exposure and not the kind of irresponsible exposure that results in a sun burn.

The key is to load your skin up with anti-oxidants by eating a diet of fruits and veggies and then practice sensible gradual sun exposure preferably in the morning and late afternoon.

If you work indoors and have pale, pasty skin from lack of sunlight exposure, consider finding a small amount of time each day to soak up some rays, you might be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.

If you’re pale-skinned absorb 10-15 minutes of rays either before 10AM or after 3PM and work your way up to about 30 minutes over time. The sun rays of mid day are too harsh so avoid this time.

Darker skinned people will need a little longer.

If you plan to stay in the sun for longer periods of time cover your body with clothing and your head with a hat.

If you decide to use sunscreen remember that most of the products on the supermarket shelves are not only ineffective but they can also make you sick.

“Our comprehensive scientific review indicates that 84% of 832 sunscreen products offer inadequate protection from the sun, or contain ingredients with significant safety concerns”. - Environmental Working Group

Go to THIS SITE to learn more and find out if your sunscreen is on the danger list.
Remember like everything else on this site, I am only offering you an idea that the world may be different from what it appears. I’m just like everyone else in the world expressing my opinion. Hopefully I am able to plant a seed in your thinking that with further research on your part will grow and help guide you through an often confusing landscape of half-truths and propaganda.

I’ll never forget the day me and a friend where walking down the street when he glanced over and noticed me fidgeting with my hair and said…

“If you comb your hair to the side, it will make it look fuller.”

That little remark thrust a sword right through my already weakened hair ego and being just twenty-two, I had enough issues to deal with already without having to worry about going bald.

I mean bald is beautiful on many guys but if I want to be bald I want the choice whether to shave my head or not.

I researched as much as I could find online about hair loss and by using a certain type of shampoo I discovered of which I reveal below, I stopped my hair loss and now have a thick, full head of hair I occasionally let grow down to my shoulders.

I’m confident the Michael’s Commandments for Hair Growth will work for you but here are some things to consider…

1) Your hair did not start falling out overnight and it is going to take some time to reverse this condition, be prepared to give the program six months to see results.

2) This program is for guys with thinning hair not for bald guys or guys with bald spots.

Do not put off taking action to prevent your hair loss. The longer you wait the harder it will be to reverse the thinning process.

While some cases of hair loss can be attributed to more serious health conditions which are touched on at the end of this article, most otherwise healthy people should be able to see positive results if they faithfully adhere to the guidelines set forth below.

Obviously there is no guarantee but following these recommendations will help create optimal conditions for you to grow a healthy full head of hair.

It wasn’t to many years before this picture that I was starting to comb my hair to the side so it would look fuller.

Michael’s commandments for healthy hair growth.

1. Be aware of how you “talk” to yourself.

If your thoughts are always “my hair is falling out faster and faster” or “I’m going to be bald before I’m thirty,” then guess what? You are going to get what you ask for.

“I have healthy hair that grows quickly”

Remember that on the quantum level your thoughts are very powerful tools, in fact they are the second step in the process that creates everything in your world that you are consciously aware of.

Simply put, once you understand how thoughts affect your physiology, you’d know that…

It will be very difficult to have a healthy head of hair when you are constantly telling yourself how much your hair is falling out.

This may be difficult to do in the beginning when you constantly see hairs in the bathroom sink but it may be the most important thing you can do if you truly desire to reverse your hair loss.

In the beginning these new thoughts may not have belief attached to them but that is alright.

It’s common knowledge that if you keep telling yourself something long enough you’ll start to believe it and…

What you continually put your attention to grows, so…

2) Visualize your hair growing.

The new thought.. “I have healthy hair that grows quickly” will slowly attract like energy to manifest itself and pretty soon you’ll start seeing evidence that will transform that thought into a belief.

The single most important thing you can do to reverse your hair loss is to CHANGE THE WAY YOU TALK TO YOURSELF ABOUT IT and then go from there.

For a deeper study of why this is so important check out the numerous articles on Kahunka that deal with the mind-body connection.

Telling yourself “I have healthy hair that grows quickly” with conviction will cause you to give attention to that thought in turn attracting similar thoughts (energy) that will assist in bringing about the manifestation of your desire, to have healthy hair that grows quickly.

Giving attention to this thought will compel you to follow through with the rest of these recommendations.

It is very important you grasp this first concept and practice it faithfully.

The first two commandments are the most important of all. They lay the foundation for which the other commandments are built and is what separates my hair loss reversal program from all the others on the internet.

3. Unclog your hair follicles.

Stop using commercial store-bought junk shampoos and start using a quality scalp cleansing type of shampoo.

That point is so important I’m going to say it again.

Stop using commercial store-bought junk shampoos and start using a quality scalp cleansing type of shampoo.

As the hair shaft grows and “pushes” it way up out of the follicle which is basically one of thousands and thousands of little holes in your head, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume you would want to keep all of those little holes unclogged so the hair shaft has an easy path to follow?

Hair growth is a complex cycle that has many contributing factors.

Simply put, the hair shaft is born, grows, dies, falls out and repeats the cycle over and over again. When you are young this is generally a vigorous cycle and the hair shaft has plenty of power to push its way through the follicle.

As we age however this process loses efficiency with one of the primary reasons being when the hair shaft falls out, before the new hair has a chance to grow and sprout out of the follicle, the follicle gets clogged or partially clogged making it very difficult for that new hair to grow.

Hair loss is normal and part of the hair cycle but when new hairs have a hard time replacing hairs that have fallen out, your hair will thin out.

It is very important to keep all those little holes in your head cleaned out and healthy which will in turn provide a optimum environment for vigorous hair growth.

So what is clogging your hair follicles?

The main culprits are…

1) Sebum

2) Your own hair products

Sebum is natural oil that is produced by the sebaceous gland and is meant to lubricate the hair shaft on it’s journey out of the hair follicle.

This is a good thing.

The problem is that for hereditary reasons and such some of us have an overactive production of sebum that can actually CLOG the hair follicles.

I have a good friend who has experienced thinning hair recently.

One day I noticed him rubbing something on his hair. Come to find out it was a wax stick used for sculpting “spikey” hairstyles.

Now if the wax is strong enough to keep bunches of hair in place, what effect do you think it would have if it gets on the scalp and clogs the hair follicles?

Look at this picture. Can you see how styling products might plug the top of the hair follicle?

If these products are applied frequently, imagine the uphill battle that tiny little hair has to “dig” its way out.

This applies to mousse, gel, hair sprays, commercial shampoos, commercial conditioners and so on.

People are constantly putting products on their scalp that can potentially clog the follicles.

If you are applying styling products to your hair (and unavoidably your scalp) then what you need to do is STOP…that is, if you want to reverse your hair loss bad enough and provide an optimal growth environment for your hair.

So how do you clean your scalp?

There are a wide variety of scalp cleansing shampoos on the market today to choose from.

I believe that a scalp cleansing shampoo was the major contributing factor to my experience in reversing hair loss.

The shampoo I’ve been using for years and continue to faithfully order every few months is called Super Hair Energizer.

Lately I’ve been using an organic tea tree oil shampoo that cleanses the scalp very well.

Nizoral is a dandruff shampoo that is gaining popularity very quickly in the reverse-hair-loss community because it not only cleans the sebum and other gunk from your scalp but it also appears to control DHT (see below) as an added side effect.

To summarize, STOP clogging your follicles with gunk and start using a quality scalp cleansing shampoo that will create an optimal environment for hair growth.

This is a much more recent picture of me in one of my longer hair phases.

The point is I stopped my hair loss and while I can’t promise my commandments will work for you, I do believe this program is your best bet for re-growing your hair without surgery or drugs.

4. Stimulate your follicles.

Stimulating the hair follicles through scalp exercise and massage will increase blood flow to the follicles and supply needed nutrients necessary for vigorous hair growth.

It only makes sense that if you feed your hair roots a rich supply of nutrients they will have a better chance for optimal growth.

Scalp Message - I message my scalp every morning in the shower when I am washing my hair. The best way I’ve found to properly stimulate your follicles with massage is to move the scalp back and forth over the skull, not by rubbing your fingers across scalp.

Take both hands and place your fingers on both sides of your scalp just above your ears.

Without sliding your fingers up the scalp, push your scalp UP so that it bunches up on the top of your head. Now pull it back down again.

Continue doing this while changing the position of your fingers at various locations around your head.

The thing to remember is that you are moving the scalp across the scull “bunching” it up at different areas all over your head.

Don’t be gentle. Your scalp will love the extra attention (thought) you are giving it. Use fast brisk motions while at the same time visualize nutrients being feed to your hair roots. THINK about how much this is going to help your hair growth.

Do this EVERY TIME you shampoo your hair at least for a few minutes and of course the longer the better depending upon your schedule.

Don’t just RUB shampoo on your hair and rinse it off again. Make it a point to massage your scalp.
Do this and you will notice a immediate difference. Your hair will have more life and spring to it with results becoming more noticeable over time.

You can do this massage anywhere at anytime you feel like it not just in the shower.

Scalp Exercise - This is not a procedure I used to stop my hair loss because it basically does the same thing as the massage described above. Many people report great results from doing scalp exercises so I’ve decided to add it here.

When you exercise your scalp, you are moving the scalp over the top of your skull like the massage with the difference being that you are using the occipitalis muscles at the back of your head to accomplish this instead of your fingers.

To summarize, you should increase the blood flow to your scalp every single day for at LEAST several minutes while you VISUALIZE fresh life-promoting nutrients flowing to your hair roots, nourishing them for optimal growth!!

And remember, do not dismiss this mind-body connection as hocus pocus! There is a growing mountain of evidence that suggests a direct link between the two.

5. Feed Your Follicles

Your hair follicles are in constant need of quality nutrients in order to produce hair. It is essential to healthy hair growth that you adopt a healthy hair promoting diet.

If you’ve investigated the articles on Kahunka you’ll already know that everything is energy.

Countless “types” of energies make up our world and everything in it.

While an apple is an energy source we can say promotes life energy for humans, a riverbed rock does not. How long would you live eating rocks off the riverbed?

At the very core both objects are flashing packets of energy surrounded by huge spaces (zero point field) but obviously the energy formation that “makes up” the apple is very different than that which makes up the river rock.

I’m going to present a different way for you to look at what you eat and how it affects not only your hair, but your entire body. Then you’ll be given a list of the best whole foods you can eat to promote healthy hair growth.

Think about hair growth on a quantum level.

Since energy seeks out and attracts like energy and our hair is made up of energy that is alive and expands (grows), it only makes sense that we want to provide this energy with like energy so can flourish and “grow.”

The food we eat is energy so it only makes sense that for optimal hair growth we should eat food that contains energy that will “seek out” and find our hair energy thus combining with it causing it to grow stronger.

At quantum levels hair is vibrating energy behaving in a way that causes it to become matter and eventually the hair we see growing out the top of our heads.

In the case of hair, the matter that this energy “forms into” is mostly protein with some fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.

So if you want your hair to grow, you need to supply it with “like” energy.

The energy that eventually forms into your hair and sprouts from the top of your head will find this energy you are providing it and combine with it causing optimal conditions for expansion (growth).

The more “nutritious energy” you can feed your hair, the better your results will be.

The diet in Eating for Energy to the right could be considered the ultimate diet for healthy hair.

Drink lots of WATER, I drink eight 16 ounce glasses of water a day!

Water is one of the most important items you can consume. Not only does water flush out impurities from your system but also is responsible for transporting nutrients to every cell in your body.

Before anything else, you should be drinking eight glasses of water each day. Some people think this is too much because we get water in the foods we eat but I disagree.

The best way for you to get the nutrients your follicles need is to eat the natural foods that contain them.

However we all know sometimes that is not easy to do.

There is a product that I’ve been taking now for several years that I believe has done much for my health and my hair.

It’s called the Ultimate Meal and it is available at most health food stores.

Supplements I have taken for healthy hair are:

MSM (Methyl-sulfonyl-methane)
Saw Palmetto
Sockeye salmon oil capsules
Modifilan

Do a Google search to find out why these particular substances may have a benefit for your hair growth.

In summary your follicles are like tiny “hair factories” that are in constant need of quality nutrients to produce a quality product we see as healthy hair.

Raw and whole foods are nutritious sources of vibrant energy that fuel your follicles and help them produce quality thick hair.

On the other hand processed foods that are high in animal fats, sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils and so on are “dead” food and not only will not supply needed nutrients to your hair but will in fact rob your system of the nutrition it needs to grow hair.

Think about this next time you are chowing down on a large French fry and drinking a sugary cola drink.

If you want to save your hair and reverse your hair loss, you cannot keep eating garbage food, no matter how good it tastes.

Remember the old saying…

Garbage in, garbage out.

If you are tired of your hair looking like garbage, quit eating garbage.

6. Get plenty of sleep.

Your body regenerates during the deepest stages of sleep and is the time youth promoting hormones like DHEA and HGH are released.

Meditation during the day can help make up for lost sleep at night.

7. Control Dihydrotestosterone

There is a type of androgen (hormone) produced in your body that is widely believed to be a chief factor in hair loss. Dihydrotestosterone or “DHT” is thought to attach to the follicles causing them to shrink and reduce the duration of the hairs growth phase resulting progressively smaller, finer hairs until eventually growth stops completely.

What causes this to happen?

It is believed that DHT is one of the androgens responsible for the stimulation of adrenaline that occurs when we are in heightened state of excitement and/or are STRESSED out.

Maybe this is why stress can contribute to hair loss.

There are many products now on the market that address the DHT issue but I am going to provide a few low cost options that may help in this area.

* STOP STRESSING OUT all the time.

* The dandruff shampoo NIZORAL appears to have a weak side effect of keeping DHT from attaching to the hair follicle. The shampoo comes in a non-prescription 1% formula available over the counter and a stronger 2% formula available without a prescription through a variety of online pharmacies. If you have hair loss, it might be worth your while to get a bottle of this cheap shampoo and use it a few times a week.

*Saw Palmetto is believed to help prevent DHT from binding to the follicle. This common herb can be found at any health food store and is the main ingredient in a few of the “hair loss” supplements being marketed.

If you have hair loss, consider incorporating one or all of these low cost DHT blockers into your daily routine.

And there you have it!!

For most people, following these guidelines will result in healthier, fuller hair in just a few months time.

Some other less common reasons for hair loss

• Thyroid disorders
• Some prescription medications
• Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
• Diabetes
• Hormonal changes

Here I am in 2007 - I m convinced doing what I share on this page has helped me keep a great head of hair.

Putting it all together.

There is so much evidence available today confirming the mind-body connection that it would be foolish to completely discount this phenomenon.

Your thoughts have a powerful effect on the overall health of your body and your hair.

Stop telling yourself your hair is falling out or what poor condition your hair may be in.

Start messaging your scalp every day and in a week start to look for even the slightest sign your hair loss is reversing.

If you look hard enough, you’ll find it. Build on this. Tell yourself how your hair loss is starting to reverse and make a commitment to follow the steps in this program.

Remember that your body is constantly renewing and as such needs a constant supply of quality nutrients to use as building blocks.

In summary:

• FOCUS your thoughts and attention to reversing your hair loss
• Visualize yourself with a healthy head of hair
• Stimulate your follicles with message and scalp exercises
• Give your body quality nutrients to work with
• Get plenty of sleep
• Control Dihydrotestosterone

If you have found something that helped you re-grow your hair, please let me know about it so I can possibly share it.

This article however isn’t about whether our teeth and digestive tracts are built to process meat but rather the toxic substances you absorb into your being on both a physical and spiritual level when you eat the meat that once housed a tortured soul.

All things have consciousness and while this concept may seem alien to many humans, it exists nonetheless.

Because a typical hamburger may contain pieces of dozens or hundreds of different animals, I’ll use a steak as an example.

Next time you sit down to your steak dinner, think for a moment about what the life of the animal whose flesh you are about to consume may have been like and about how you will be absorbing it’s karma with each bite you take.

The life of a typical cow is not the same as it was even fifty years ago and while I use beef as an example, the story below could apply to any animal raised for food.

Today’s factory animals experience unimaginable suffering from the day they are born often being immediately separated from their mother at birth to begin a life of pain and misery which ensues until the day they are slaughtered for their meat.

During their life they are force fed mashed-up remains of other farm animals and foods they were never naturally intended to eat. Because of this disease would be rampant if it were not for the antibiotics that are pumped into their bodies to artificially keep them healthy.

Since meat is sold by the pound growth hormones are injected into these animals to assure the maximum corporate return.

The biggest problem I see with meat is how the animals are treated, what they are fed and what they are medicated with during their lifetime.

When you eat meat not only do you absorb adrenaline, growth hormones, antibiotics and other toxins into your body on a physical level but you also absorb the energy of an animal that may have lived a hellish life and experienced a potentially gruesome horrifying death into your own energy field.

Think about that.

Surveys suggest most of us consider ourselves to be “spiritual,” so I wonder how many people actually think about the spiritual aspect of being a meat eater.

What kind of chemical reaction would occur in your body if someone put a choke chain around your neck to keep you in line, shoved you onto a conveyor belt , and made you watch in horror as all of those in line in front of you were beheaded one by one? Your body would be pumped full of adrenaline from all the fear! Unused adrenaline is extremely toxic. If you think for a minute that most of the meat you consume is not packed with this toxic substance, you are sadly mistaken! – Paul Bragg N.D., Ph.D.

The eating of much flesh fills us with a multitude of evil diseases and multitudes of evil desires. – Porphyries, 233 A.D.

To get the most from this article, I recommend you watch this short video before you continue.

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I’m going to finish with a quote by Gabriel Cousens from his book Spiritual Nutrition.

The energy of a flesh-food diet adds to the impurities of the mind and the nervous system. It communicates the energy of destruction to the cells and brings the energy of death into our auric fields, reducing the flow of higher prana into the body. The lives of the creatures we’ve eaten weigh down our astral bodies with their negative feelings of fear and suffering at the time of their death. - Gabriel Cousens M.D. - Spiritual Nutrition

Earlier this week someone in our discussion forum wrote, “I haven’t “LOST” any fat… I know EXACTLY where it went! I got a chuckle out of that because I “got” the joke, but truth is, most people really don’t know how fat cells work, how the fat burning process takes place or where the fat goes when it’s burned. It’s actually quite a complex biochemical process, but I’ll explain it as simply as possible, so by the end of this article, you’ll be a “fat burning” expert!

When you “lose” body fat, the fat cell (also called an adipocyte) does not go anywhere or “move into the muscle cell to be burned. The fat cell itself, (unfortunately) stays right where it was - under the skin in your thighs, stomach, hips, arms, etc., and on top of the muscles - which is why you can’t see muscle “definition” when your body fat is high.

Fat is stored inside the fat cell in the form of triaglycerol. The fat is not burned right there in the fat cell, it must be liberated from the fat cell through somewhat complex hormonal/enzymatic pathways. When stimulated to do so, the fat cell simply releases its contents (triaglycerol) into the bloodstream as free fatty acids (FFA’s), and they are transported through the blood to the tissues where the energy is needed.

A typical young male adult stores about 60,000 to 100,000 calories of energy in body fat cells. What triggers the release of all these stored fatty acids from the fat cell? Simple: When your body needs energy because you’re consuming fewer calories than you are burning (an energy deficit), then your body releases hormones and enzymes that signal your fat cells to release your fat reserves instead of keeping them in storage.

For stored fat to be liberated from the fat cell, hydrolysis (lipolysis or fat breakdown), splits the molecule of triaglycerol into glycerol and three fatty acids. An important enzyme called hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) is the catalyst for this reaction. The stored fat (energy) gets released into the bloodstream as FFA’s and they are shuttled off to the muscles where the energy is needed. As blood flow increases to the active muscles, more FFA’s are delivered to the muscles that need them.

An important enzyme called lipoprotein lipase (LPL), then helps the FFA’s get inside the mitochondria of the muscle cell, where the FFA’s can be burned for energy. If you’ve ever taken a biology class, then you’ve probably heard of the mitochondria. This is the “cellular powerhouse” where energy production takes place and this is where the FFA’s go to be burned for energy.

When the FFA’s are released from the fat cell, the fat cell shrinks and that’s why you look leaner when you lose body fat - because the fat cell is now smaller. A small or “empty” fat cell is what you’re after if you want the lean, defined look.

It was once believed that the number of fat cells could not increase after adulthood, only the size of the fat cells could increase (or decrease). We now know that fat cells can indeed increase both in size (hypertrophy) and in number (hyperplasia) and that they are more likely to increase in number at certain times and under certain circumstances, such as 1) during late childhood and early puberty, 2) During pregnancy, and 3) During adulthood when extreme amounts of weight are gained.

Some people are genetically predisposed to have more fat cells than others and women have more fat cells than men. An infant usually has about 5 - 6 billion fat cells. This number increases during early childhood and puberty, and a healthy adult with normal body composition has about 25 to 30 billion fat cells. A typical overweight adult has around 75 billion fat cells. But in the case of severe obesity, this number can be as high as 250 to 300 billion!
The average size (weight) of an adult fat cell is about 0.6 micrograms, but they can vary in size from 0.2 micograms to 0.9 micrograms. An overweight person’s fat cells can be up to three times larger than a person with ideal body composition.

Remember, body fat is basically just a reserve source of energy and fat cells are the like the storage tanks. Unlike a gas tank in your car which is fixed in size, however, fat cells can expand or shrink in size depending on how “filled” they are.

Picture a balloon that is not inflated: It’s tiny when not filled with air - maybe the size of your thumb. When you blow it up with air, it can expand 10 or 12 times it’s normal size, because it simply fills up. That’s what happens to fat cells: They start as nearly empty fat storage “tanks” (when you are lean), and when energy intake exceeds your needs, your fat cells “fill up” and “stretch out” like balloons filling up with jelly (not a pretty picture, is it?)

So you don’t actually “lose” fat cells, you “shrink” or “empty out” fat cells.

Take-home lessons:

1. Calories count! The signal that triggers your body to release adipose from fat cells is an energy deficit… you have to burn more than you eat.

2. Cut calories conservatively. Starving yourself may cause quick weight loss at first, but never works long term because it actually decreases the activity of fat burning enzymes that release fat from the cells. to avoid this “starvation mode” use exercise to BURN THE FAT, not very low calorie crash diets.

3. Get control of your weight now. If you are gaining weight, and especially if your weight is climbing upwards out of control, make a decision to STOP RIGHT NOW. Your fat cells might be multiplying, making it more difficult to burn fat in the future. NOW is the time!

4. If you’ve already lost weight, you must be forever diligent. Your fat cells are not gone, they have merely “shrunk” or “emptied out.” Fitness is not a 12 week program, its a lifestyle. To stay lean you have to eat clean and stay active

5. Genetics are only a minor factor. You may not have control over how many fat cells you were born with, but you do control the major factors that determine how much fat you store: lifestyle, exercise, nutrition, mental attitude.

Genetics are not an excuse. The past is not an excuse. Your present condition is not an excuse. You can either make excuses or get results, but you can’t do both.

So keep educating yourself about the science, read these newsletters, take action every day and go out there and make it happen!

If you need more help, Burn The Fat is the eating plan that turned it all around for thousands of others… why not you? visit: Burn The Fat.com

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder, certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and a certified personal trainer (CPT). Tom is the author of “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using methods of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: Burn The Fat.com

If you’ve been feeling stuck in life lately, things aren’t going your way or maybe you’ve made some bad decisions you are now regretting then maybe this article can help.

We live in a sea of energy that moves in waves.

Some people tend to ride the crest of these waves while others seem to find themselves at the bottom more often.

Everyone rides the ups and downs of life including yours truly.

It is impossible not to because it is the very nature of the universe. You cannot know the good without having experienced the bad.

Everyone has good and bad times in their life.

If you are at a place in your life you no longer wish to be, consider the experience a life lesson and move on.

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.” - Les Brown

You’ve experienced a life lesson, now why not move on?

Don’t have regrets, hold grudges or continue with a “chip on your shoulder” toward yourself, your thoughts and actions or anyone else because these emotions are a form of bad energy.

This energy is real and it will negatively effect you until you release it.

The first step is to take resposnsibity for where you are right now.

It’s true we are the co-creators of our lives and since the partnership in the “co” part of co-creators in the Universe, it is largely the sum of our own decisions that have created the place we are today.

The next step is forgiveness.

Forgiveness a HUGE and important step.

You don’t have to forget but you have to forgive.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. - Mark Victor Hansen

You’ve experienced a life lesson. Acknowledge it, learn from it, forgive all and let it go so you can move on….don’t dwell in the past because you live in the now.

“Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.” - Les Brown

The next thing to create a gratitude list. Write down everything you are thankful for.

“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” -Robert H. Schuller

I can’t begin to explain how important this step is. Gratitude is one of the magic tools you can use to ride the crest of life’s waves or just get back on your surf board again in case you fall off.

Everyone has stuff to be thankful for.

Think about something that you have right now that if you didn’t, you’d wish you did.

Every day spend five minutes writing and/or reading this list and give thanks to Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, God, the Universe or whatever you consider to be your higher power.

Now it’s time to move on with your life so you have to decide exactly the place you’d like to go.

“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” - Yogi Berri

“Deep down” people know what they want, what they like and who they are but when suppress these feelings and go against our true selves, conflict arises.

So how do I find out what it is I want to do or be?

Sit in a quiet place and relax. Ask yourself if there were no social pressure of any kind from family, friends, employers and so on and you could do, be or have anything you desired, what would it be?

The gut feeling and the little voices you may have been suppressing will start to speak up, listen because this is the way your higher self communicates with you.

It will tell you what you want to know.

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” - William James“

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” - Mark Twain

“What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists…and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want…and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.” - Alexander Graham Bell

Determine what you want and make the commitment to go for it.

Do not compare your point in life to that of other people. The journey through our human experience is like a horizontal circular track, a horse track if you will. No one is any further along or behind, we are all just at different points along the track.

Reread that last paragraph.

Do not concern yourself with “starting over.”

“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” - Barbara Sher

Don’t worry about “generating positive energy” because this will come automatically.

Focus on what you love and your desires.

Thoughts are things and do become the events, circumstances and situations of our lives but could you imagine if everything we thought about materialized instantly?

This is why there is a “time buffer” built into the Universal process of creation.
Once you know what you want, visualize yourself as already having that condition.

Close your eyes for at least ten minutes a day and see yourself as having what it is you desire. See it, touch it, hear it and so on.

Every time you do this the desire will move a little closer to you.

But visualizing by itself is not enough. The equation looks like this…

Visualization + Action = Realization

“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.” - Thomas Robert Gaines

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Alva Edison

In other words if you are at a point in your life and you wish to move to another, dream, imagine and visualize that condition BUT the second key ingredient is ACTION. You cannot sit on the couch all day and daydream and expect your life change.
Remember however when you are doing what you love and following your dreams, it won’t seem like effort at all.

Following these simple ideas has the power to change your life around if that’s what you truly want to do.

Now a few more thoughts on happiness.

If you are unhappy now and want happiness, don’t seek it externally from the state you are presently in because it won’t be there.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell

So how do you find true happiness?

Don’t worry about “finding” it at all!

If you follow the steps in this article happiness may just find you.

“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.” - Dale Carnegie

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” - Sir James M. Barrie