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"It's a deep feeling of vitality, well-being, and the sense that you've achieved the highest possible quality of life. When you live in Brilliant Health, you have a healthier body down to the cellular level. You have better brain function. You recover faster from illness and injury. Your organ systems function better. And you can even look forward to the possibility of a longer, and definitely better, life. Of the many things we do to manage our health, training ourselves to recognize and nurture the positive emotions that create Brilliant Health is the least utilized yet most powerful of all." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Eve accompanied the man through a metamorphosis, from a story that was driven by sickness to a healthy story full of vitality. His body and mind reflected this experience. He told her, "No one talks to me. I need to talk about my real life. I haven't felt this well in a long time." BE CAREFUL THE TALES YOU TELL; YOUR BODY WILL LISTEN What are your favorite stories, sweet remembrances, funny recollections, proudest moments, and loving embraces? Tell yourself the story you want to hear about your body, your happiness, and your life. If they don't exist yet, invent them, in detail." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The seven-week journal Living the Seven Golden Keys to Lifelong vitality, which can be purchased separately, will provide a framework for your success. Not only is it an easy tracking tool that will help you to plan and organize your health strategy, it also is a "record of accountability," a great way to measure and chart your daily and weekly progress. You might partner with a friend, another family, or even a support group—for encouragement, edification, and sharing of ideas. (Remember, this book is simply a catalyst to begin the journey. It's your responsibility to keep on the path." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"You will find that these guidelines, when combined with regular exercise, will improve your health, vitality, and the functioning of your gastrointestinal tract. This, in turn, reduces the chance of degenerative and chronic diseases, and helps slow the aging process. Remember, prevention is the key! Some of the important nutrients for healing the GI tract include the amino acid L-glutamine, pantothenic acid, zinc, vitamin A, antioxidants (such as vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and selenium), the bioflavonoid quercetin, essential fatty acids, inulin, and fiber (particularly the soluble kind)." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Although the research has shown an unmistakable correlation between our core beliefs and the health, vitality, and longevity of our bodies, it's also easy to misinterpret this kind of connection. It's all about the way that information is shared. On the one hand, I believe that no one wakes up one morning and consciously chooses to manifest a physical condition that will bring pain into their life and suffering to their loved ones. On the other hand, I also know beyond any reasonable doubt that by changing a belief, we can renew the health and vitality of our bodies." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Many physicians did not recognize that the vitality of enzymes, as they were then used, lasted only hours. Sadly, upon Beard's death in 1923, pancreatic enzyme therapy was largely forgotten. Max Wolf: On the Trail of Enzyme Therapy Discovering a copy of Beard's book moldering away in a scientific library, New York physician Max Wolf thought he understood why Beard had been successful and why his imitators often had dismal results; he understood the fragile nature of the enzymes' vitality." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Reprinted with permission from vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) TOO 50 75 85 100 Years of Age Figure 21. If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"We should support ourselves regularly with a balanced, wholesome diet and fast at specific times to treat symptoms and/or to enhance our vitality and spiritual practice. If we could devote one day per week to purification and a cleansing diet, the path of health would be smooth indeed. Choosing healthy foods, chewing well, and maintaining good colon function all minimize our need for fasting." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Overworked /Golden i Keys to i Unlock Lifelong vitality land has resulted in soil loss, drought, famine, and eventually desertification. Pesticides and herbicides and hormone-enhancing drugs, chemical additives and preservatives, chemical sprays and food processing damage our foods to a truly profound extent. We are surrounded by asbestos, formaldehyde (in particle board, plywood, paints, and plastics), vinyl chloride, and radioactivity—all of which are dangerous." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Anyone with cancer needs adequate nourishment; adding fresh juices to an already wholesome diet can promote mild detoxification and enhance overall vitality. Consult with an experienced practitioner first for individual treatment guidance. The Process and Benefits of Fasting Although the results of fasting will vary depending upon the individual condition of the faster, there are a number of metabolic changes and experiences that are common to all. First, fasting is a catalyst for change and an essential part of transformational medicine." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"This is the miraculous property that enables ice to float on the surface of major bodies of water, thus leaving SUPER HEALTH /Golden J Keys to i Unlock Lifelong vitality the liquid water below to remain a suitable environment for the survival of all sea creatures.2 This unprecedented property of water also enables ice to form from the top of the sea, not from the bottom, and enables ice to melt away during the summer. But despite the many miraculous, life-giving properties of water, no other essential natural resource has been more abused, overused, poisoned, and wasted." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Case Study: Tobin j Cameraman, age 30 Tobin lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, and came to one of my (Daniella's) Spring Detox classes in hopes to regain energy and vitality. He came away with some unexpected results. He cleaned the toxins from his home and eliminated chemicals and toxic foods from his diet. Tobin explained, "I was surprised to find that as my body became cleaner, my mind became clear, and I no longer tolerated emotional frustrations. I felt like I had to rid myself of "toxic emotions." He went to the extent of facing up to his boss and expressing some long repressed feelings." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"People suffering from Syndrome X often show a loss of energy and a general lack of vitality. They tend to lead sedentary lifestyles; they eat larger portions of food than most; and some are substance abusers, in that they consume too much sugar, alcohol, or over-the-counter drugs. The solution to Syndrome X is mostly lifestyle related. First and foremost, one must focus on eating low glycemic foods as a matter of course.15 As mentioned before, low glycemic foods are those that slowly and gently produce a gradual increase in blood glucose levels." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Lawrence Crapo in a book entitled vitality and Aging*—the graphic would show steady health toward the prime of life, a period on that prime plateau when all was well, then a long, steady decline toward death (see Figure 20). I believe that we can change that profile dramatically. The new graphic would show the same steadiness in the prime, but the plateau—that period of health, strength, and well-being that marked the middle section of the old graphic— would be extended. No longer would chronic illness precipitate the sad decline of later years." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Chinese doctors use it to treat erectile problems, boost libido, and recapture the sexual vitality of youth. Herb traders in China estimate that they sell more than 100 tons of the stuff every year. Little research has been done on horny goat weed and libido, but it has a long history of successful use, and many health practitioners, not only in Asia, but over here, endorse it. "Epimedium is, in fact, likely to make you horny. Most users will notice a mild to moderate effect on the third or fourth day of use," says Ray Sahelian, M.D., author of Natural Sex Boosters." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"There can be an overall lack of vitality, joy, and laughter with many mood swings, or the other extreme of hyperexcitability, leading to burnout. An imbal-anced fire element has an intense need to be accepted by others as a way of connecting. There can be a tendency to become scattered and unable to focus, especially when the small intestine is imbalanced. Earth The earth element is our direct relationship to "the Mother," including the earth, our biological mother, and our own mothering role." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "The ability of the earth to create itself is the ultimate in vitality, without which there would be no life. It is in every leaf, every blade of grass, every breeze, every rock, every drop of rain, and every ray of sunshine that the vital principle gives life. It is in its inherent aliveness that spirit exists. One cannot exist without the other because they are one and the same. It is not spirit that we hope to find, because it is in each one of us as a given by the mere fact that we are alive. Rather, it is the constant striving to achieve a balance that is our challenge." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "The iifeblood fills my body with the sweet essence of Maple—it's invigorating and returns vitality to my sluggish winter-mode cells. Here in this blessed moment, I am integrally connected to Maple with her sap giving me new life, new vigor to begin again the cycle of the growing season. I notice the swelling in my heart and the tears forming in my eyes at the incredible gift Maple is giving me." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The Earth, with its life-giving vitality, as well as its deathliness, was a convergence of Eros and Thanatos. Peasant women in Europe used to squirt breast milk on soil to encourage it. We've fertilized with hair, blood, used wigs, rotting blankets and just about anything else that once lived. One Boston grape grower's root system was embedded in the decomposing corpse of a circus elephant. Scientists recently uncovered an entire whale skeleton in the soil of a Tuscan vineyard." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Animals taking the mix performed better on memory tests and also showed general signs of vitality. "With these two supplements together, these old rats got up and did the Macarena," Ames says. "The brain looks better, they are full of energy—everything we looked at looks more O like a young animal." Indeed, analysis of the |i O rats' brain tissue showed that they had less dam- ^ age to the mitochondria—the power centers of % m the cells—and less oxidative damage to the 1/1 memory center of the brain (the hippocampus)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "I continue to be fascinated by GPC's capacities to salvage function in the damaged brain, to sharpen mental performance even in people who are healthy, and to give new vitality to the aging brain," Kidd says. I'll tell you one of many examples that demonstrate the scientific validation of this remarkable nutrient. One set of trials involved a fascinating phenomenon called scopolamine amnesia. It seems that if you administer a chemical called scopolamine (by injection or by mouth) to people, they will very quickly experience near-total amnesia. They just forget everything." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The very nature of the Earth is of spirit, as without the Earth and all she provides there would be no life or vitality. The Earth is a large hologram of spirit; in each of its parts the whole of spirit exists and can be experienced. Our connection to spirit then begins with our connection to the Earth and the elements that sustain life. It is here in the natural world that our connection to spirit is readily found and easy to experience because it is intrinsic to the earth." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In the years following, he traveled ever more frequently to the West, where his irrepressible good humor and charismatic spiritual presence helped give new vitality to older romantic visions of Tibet as a Shangri-la (now politically threatened), with much to teach a morally and spiritually impoverished West.87 Everyone, it seemed, wanted the opportunity to explore the deep secret behind this man's happiness and equanimity, and to bask in his warmth." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Because of this, I have the stamina and vitality of three men, need very little sleep, feel good all the time, am stress-free, and (now that I dealt with that congenital heart problem in my forties) am as healthy as a horse. These benefits of meditation are within reach for everyone who meditates regularly. The Method I teach an easy meditation method that has a lot of magnetic pull and has been more thoroughly researched than any other method. To begin, do what you can to limit distractions. Check your bladder, turn off your phone, dim bright lights, and turn off the music." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"People who are quite literally facing their deaths could actually live more fully and imbue their lives with vitality by reordering their priorities. But first, the considerable and deep anxiety that comes from staring into the bottomless pit of nonbeing had to be tolerated."58 In 1980, Spiegel and Yalom and another colleague undertook a study to see whether or not group psychotherapy treatment conducted according to Yalom's existential principles would in fact help people who were literally facing death." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "For those who believe in the God of Scripture, the reality of vitality, of good and evil, and the grace of God unto salvation, there is nothing here but the frenzy of a guilty life and the misery of creeping death.44 Such criticisms hurt, and at one point Peale felt so bruised he considered resigning his pastorate. Only the support of his family, particularly his father, emboldened him to continue. Over time, the voices of critics like these were muted against a backdrop of general public acclaim for his message." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The body thus regains its ability to function freely and results in a more positive attitude, for improved energy and vitality. Bioenergetics concentrates on personal growth rather than curing illness, although help has been reported with migraine, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome and peptic ulcers. BIOFEEDBACK In biofeedback, machines monitor changes in physical and mental states and provide information so that the patient can control body functions using such techniques as breathing and relaxation, meditation and visualisation therapy." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"These men appeared to retain their vigor and vitality longer than men almost anywhere else. In most developed parts of the world, women centenarians outnumbered men four to one. Here, the ratio was one to one. Their study had shown that the geographic distribution of longevity in Sardinia was not homogeneous. In at least one geographic area, the Barbagia Blue Zone, the probability of becoming a centenarian was higher than in other parts of the island. This area of extreme longevity was located in a mountainous region that had been relatively isolated until recent times. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Another study of a group of employees showed reductions in stress levels and depression, and improvements in feelings of health and vitality after a twenty-four-week program of aerobic exercise when compared to a control group. In a 1985 study, forty-three patients with depression, about half of whom were being treated for the condition with antidepressants, were randomized to receive nine weeks of exercise training (aerobic for one hour, three times a week at 50% to 70% maximum aerobic capacity) or occupational therapy." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Reprinted with permission from vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease. Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that profound lifestyle change with plant-based nutrition offers the optimal opportunity to avoid heart disease—and to restore erectile capacity." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

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