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About this book
This book is another in the Arnold Ehret library but except for a short article on The Definite Cure of Chronic Constipation at the beginning, this book was written by Dr. Benedict Lust, a student and supporter of Ehret. So here we have Ehret’s explanation of how and why humans are internally unclean; the “effect” of laxatives (which are very unhealthy and hurt the digestive system and, indeed, one’s vitality); what the “Real and Deeper Cause of Constipation” is; and how constipation is the cause of all disease. Using Ehret’s teaching, Dr. Lust outlines the natural way to overcome constipation through his recount of Ehret’s Mucusless Diet Healing System. Except for noting that Ehret recommended the first meal of the day be taken at noon (in everything I read, Ehret recommends to eat the first meal of the day between 10 and 11 AM) most of the information is an accurate record of Ehret’s methods, lectures, teachings, etc. as far as I can remember.

New information
There is some new information presented in this book that I haven’t read in his other books, Mucusless Diet Healing System, Rational Fasting (Ehret’s Health Literature),  The Story of My Life, Thus speaketh the stomach: The germinating center of all disease! also, The tragedy of nutrition, The cause and cure of human illness, Physical fitness thru superior diet, fasting and dietetics: Also a religious concept of physical, spiritual and mental dietetics. That is:

1. Boils, pimples and the like are evidence of constipation since it shows that the bowels aren’t eliminating all of the waste and must utilize the skin to help.
2. A few drops of lemon juice in distilled water replaces the minerals lost by distillation.
3. Drinking a glass of hot water with honey and lemon juice upon arising is recommended.
4. Water is a great laxative. – Just try drinking 16-32 ounces of water upon getting up in the morning. I find it not only helps my bowels move but it also wakes me up. My mother used to bring me a glass of water to drink when I was having trouble having a bowel movement.
5. "Holding it" instead of going to the toilet "when nature calls" can cause the reabsorbing of the poisons the body is trying to get rid of through elimination. This can also lead to further constipation since the fecal matter is then dried out and sticks to the colon more readily.
6. Foods that have been grown in chemically treated soil, nowadays called "conventionally grown" lacks vital minerals and nutrients and can cause an "additional health hazard", so buy organic foods.
7. Balanced living is as important as your diet. Ensuring you get enough sleep, have a "happy mental attitude", and "healthy working habits" is just as important for staying healthy and not being constipated.
8. Butter, margarines and cooking oils all stick to the insides of the alimentary canal thus adding to constipation.
9. There is evidence that proves the human body can’t "digest or assimilate saturated fats and greases".
10. A lot of foods in the Standard American Diet (SAD) are constipating and "form toxic waste poisons in the body".
11. Eating frozen foods "shocks" the digestive system and are actually high in acidity.
12. Making a habit of eliminating upon arising and after each meal can help your body avoid constipation. Just get in the habit.
13. Exercising regularly and breathing deeply will help keep the bowels regular.
14. For a natural laxative use fresh coconut and carrot juice. In the movie Cast Away the main character tells us that coconuts are a laxative but "Gilligan never told us that".
15. Dr. J. H. Kellogg is quoted as saying that eating "wrong-foods" as little as once a month can activate otherwise dormant disease cells and that we should abstain completely from these "wrong foods".
16. Never drink with any meal.
17. Only eat tree-ripened fruit, otherwise it’s acid forming.
18. If we all changed our diets using these methods we could wipe out illness in only one generation!
19. Over-eating is worse for the body than under-eating. (This advice is for adults.)

Conclusion
Even if you have one bowel movement a day you are chronically constipated. This book is another “must read” if you are planning on incorporating Arnold Ehret’s healing principles into your life. A complete understanding of his philosophies, experiments, methodologies and ideas are essential to your success. You can change your life, if you really want to.

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Housekeeping tip #3
I like to replace my kitchen towels each day so we are always using a clean one. With more than one person using the kitchen I never knew if the kitchen towel was clean or used from yesterday. I developed a method that is almost fool-proof. Our kitchen’s main color is green with blue accents. I have sixteen towels, enough for two weeks, one extra for washing day, and one more just in case. Two of the towels are blue, seven are green with white lines, and seven are white with green lines.

My method
When I’m folding the towels I put the two blue ones on the bottom and alternate the others on top. That way I know if the towel has been changed from the day before. Today we are using a white one with green lines and I know it’s clean because yesterday we used a green one with white lines. When I get down to the blue ones I know I have a day wash them before I run out. How’s that?

Adapting this to you
If you have two different kinds of towels you can alternate them and have one or two that are completely different. The completely different one (or two) you can place at the bottom of your pile to warn you when it’s getting close to wash day.

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My experience
I really enjoy this agave nectar. It has a low glycemic index so it doesn’t make my blood sugar go crazy. It stays liquid and doesn’t crystallize like honey. It even dissolves in cold drinks, not that I drink anything cold because I don’t. It pours easily and won’t gunk up the opening either.

Uses
It can be used much like honey: poured into drinks, hot or cold; sweeten almost any food without a sugar high; lick off your fingers; you get the idea.

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Summary
Utilizing HeartMath Solution this book has exercises and techniques that, if practiced regularly, relieve stress, worry, tension, fatigue and related problems. I’m greatly oversimplifying this book. There is so much more to it, I’ll just get into the techniques and the book will tell you how and why they work. The techniques can even help you sleep better. Quite a promise, huh?

Stress related illnesses
These methods, after several weeks of practice, have been proven to eliminate mild depression, anxiety attacks and other stress related illnesses. You would be surprised by what illnesses are caused by stress and how they can be relieved and/or reduced through these HeartMath techniques. It just might increase your quality of life, get you to slow down (and slow down time as mentioned in Home with God), be in the NOW and have a happier life.

Practice
It is recommended that the techniques, all involving variations on breathing through the heart, be practiced regularly starting with Quick Coherence. After practicing for a few days or so you can add another technique and so on. I practiced Quick Coherence first as recommended in "Setting Up a Practice Program" on page 128. I practiced that one technique several times a day for about a week. After that I added the Hearth Lock-In and did those two techniques for about ten days before adding Attitude Breathing. Attitude Breathing is a much faster way to "change your attitude" as many of us have been told to do through the years.

My experience
Visible difference
With all of this practicing I got into quite a regular routine and found myself doing the techniques throughout the day. After practicing for a few weeks other people around me started to notice a change in me. After visiting us my parents called to say that they noticed how I handled things more calmly during their visit and how they could really see that I was using it and it made a difference. They are the ones who gave me the book after using it themselves so they could tell what made the difference. My husband even commented on how east I was to get along with and how nice the energy in the house felt.

It made me feel awesome
I was feeling great and was in bliss quite frequently. I would spontaneously become aware of my heart and feelings of peace and joy as well as a connection to the Divine. It made such a tremendous difference in my life and how I handled things that came up for me. Things that previously got me stressed and overwhelmed were taken in stride and I was so pleased with my progress.

Example
Well, I’ve used these techniques now very successfully in various situations. One night I was sleeping very restlessly. I had eaten things that I don’t usually eat, Day Light Saving Time had started and in changing the clocks buzzers were going off in the middle of the night and my sleep was suffering. After being woken up the third time I did the Heart Lock-In technique until I fell asleep and the rest of the night I slept well.

Suggestions
Since there isn’t an index you might want to make notes. For your convenience I’ve supplied page numbers for the techniques since you’ll need to refer back to them later.
Practice Program Techniques:
Quick Coherence is on page 44
Heart Lock-In is on page 80
Attitude Breathing is on page 103

Also mentioned in the book is a technique called "Freeze-Frame". It isn’t described in the Transforming Stress book but I see the author devoted a whole book to it: Freeze-Frame. There is also software, Freeze-Framer® v2.0 Interactive Learning System with Patented Heart Rhythm Monitor, if you want to take your practice to a whole new level and monitor how you’re doing. (The software includes the Freeze-Frame book.)  The Journey to Wild Divine software program also provides feedback on how calm your energy is. It’s my understanding that the Freeze-Framer® software specifically uses the HeartMath methods and provides feedback on your HeartMath practice. See what works for you. I haven’t read the Freeze-Frame book or used the software so I’ll leave it up to you.

Conclusions
If you have trouble sleeping, feel stress, feel anxious, are nervous, depressed or just want to slow down and enjoy life more than I strongly suggest testing these methods for yourself. You will be pleasantly surprised. Included in the book are techniques and exercises to help you sustain and maintain your new calmer states of being.

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Summary
In this, his latest and last book in the Conversations with God (CwG) series Neale Donald Walsch gets into the nitty-gritty of death and finds that he died at birth. Huh?! Well, that was in another reality, obviously, as we know he is alive and well in this reality. Home with God : In a Life That Never Ends has been touted as the most important book he’s written so far. Quantum Physics come into play as well as techniques on being wholly present in order to experience the Divine while still in the body. The principles from the other CwG books are repeated again in this book. You might ask why we keep having to go over the same things again but you could also ask why we aren’t living as if we know them already, couldn’t you?

Time
Consider that time is a tunnel. We can go forward and backward, up and down in this tunnel. We can go faster and we can go slower. Don’t you sometimes feel time is going slowly and other times it’s racing by? I’ve noticed that I can slow down time by being in the moment: paying deep attention to what I’m doing, take my time and not think about time, looking into my daughter’s eyes intently while she is talking, or just deciding I want time to slow down. Cool, huh? It works for me. We can also go through this tunnel of time more than once. Surprised? Doesn’t it explain déjà vu better than The Matrix? "I’ve been here and done this before!" It’s funny how I never have déjà vu about the spiritual stuff I’m doing. I probably wasn’t into this the other times I went through this life-time. I don’t think I lived this long in most of the other alternate realities of this life-time. I guess my spiritual path kept me from ending my life early.

Suicide
Speaking of ending one’s life early, don’t do it. You’ll be going nowhere fast. Basically, we came to this lifetime to have experiences. If we decide to end our lives before we have experienced what we came here to experience we’ll just have to start all over again and experience that. We might as well make the most of it instead of trying to "get done" early. It’s also very upsetting to those we leave behind.

Manifesting our futures
We are totally in control of the experiences we have in the "future". What we say, think and do all creates opportunities in the future. Keep your thoughts, words and deeds positive and uplifting to create positive and uplifting choices in the future.

Death
This book is about death and dying and life and living. Once you understand what death’s all about and what’s on "the other side", you can really start living. How about this, death is reversible and no one dies unfulfilled? Kind of makes all those seemingly "meaningless" deaths meaningful, huh? God shares with us a total of 18 things we need to remember about death and dying, 18 "Remembrances" he calls them.

Remembrances
Remember, there is nothing we need to learn here, only remember. We don’t have to learn about death we just have to remember about it. There are 18 remembrances everything from you die for yourself, to remembering we all have free choice. Don’t ask me to explain them. It took God a whole book. Do you think I can do it faster?

What this book’s for
This book is meant to help you find your own truth. Neale found his truth while writing this book and the hope is that this book will help others find what’s true for them.

Questions I had People are coming up with all kinds of questions after reading this book. The CwG foundation has been inundated with letters and emails in response to this book. Neale has even developed a new retreat called Conversations with God: The Retreat Home with God, in a life that never ends to help people who have questions and want to understand this information better.

Here are my questions:

1. With the information you brought in where does that leave other teachings like Eckhart Tolle and Paramahansa Yogananda? Eckhart said if we miss all the other opportunities for enlightenment during our lifetime that another portal to the Divine will open upon our death. It’s a bright light and all we have to do is go through it. So far so good, right? But then he goes on to say that… “most people see the light, turn away in fear and lose consciousness. What happens after that is automatic. There will be another round of birth and death because their consciousness was not strong enough for conscious realization.” (Or something along those lines.) And where does that leave enlightenment? Paramahansa, among others, said that once we achieve enlightenment we will “go out no more”, as in not be born into a physical body any more. And where does the consciousness go when in Samadhi?

2. How do we go around the “tunnel of time” in a spiral? How do we go backwards? I can already tell when I’m going more slowly or quickly forward and can slow myself down but how do we achieve spiral or backwards movement? And do we want to? What would be the benefit and affect of each?

3. What are ghosts? If everyone goes through the “death” door, remembers who they are and creates life anew on the “other side” then what are ghosts? Is the door still open for them and they just haven’t gone through all the way yet? How long would that go on?

4. Are our guides the same as angels or are our guides different voices of God?

5. Is it possible to come back as another person in the same life to help yourself or someone else?

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I bet you’re really intrigued.

Addendum
Neale mentioned the possibility of writing an addendum to the book. If he does I hope he writes an index for the book as well. I have found the indexes in the other books very valuable and really miss not having one in this book. I made sure I made notes as I went along.

Suggestions
In addition to taking notes while you’re reading the book you can take further steps to ingrain this information into your consciousness. By taking the basic principles of teaching the mind a new truth from John Randolph Price‘s The Abundance Book we can create our own study of the 18 remembrances about death. John says it takes 40 days for the mind to learn a new truth. His method calls for meditating on one "remembrance" for our purposes. Each day we meditate for 15 minutes on one "remembrance" then write down the thoughts it brings up. I suggest doing numbers 1 through 16 twice each and then doing 17 and 18 four times each. This takes us 40 days. I’m getting started tonight. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Further endeavors
Neale has developed another website which combines the efforts of all the other websites in a united purpose to change the world in 10 to 15 years. It’s called The Group of 1000. Check it out to see if you are inspired to join. It’s intense. You could say the other organizations he’s created, Humanity’s Team, ReCreation Foundation and The School of the New Spirituality have been waiting for this final website to bring them into their full purpose and manifestation. It’s powerful stuff.

View book details at Amazon.com: Home with God : In a Life That Never Ends

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