Doctors have been with us for about two thousand years. To the vast and
ongoing benefit of the human race, some are extremely devoted; others are
highly-skilled; still others have that magical combination of both. These
people contribute enormously to humanity's progress. They number
approximately seven to nine in every one hundred. This forum refers to the
other ninety-one to ninety-three of every one hundred medical doctors.
Undeniably, the vast majority of their patients have gotten worse and/or
died. A few months before President Clinton finished his second term of
office, he issued an executive order permanently banning handwritten
prescriptions in all federally-funded hospitals when it was revealed that
nearly 300,000 Americans were being killed every year, even up until 2000
just from wrong medications being administered and accidental overdoses!
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND per year! Hundreds of families per day being
shattered by negligence and sloppy handwriting alone, day after day, year
after year. It is vitally important to at least 80% of all Americans to be
keenly aware of this. We know that 80% of us will consult at least one
doctor within any twenty-four month period.
Sadly, dissemination of this unpleasant hard reality causes many people to
confuse personality or opinion with factual issues. Many doctors, perhaps
even a majority, are genuinely caring people who wish to save lives. Few
of us would doubt this.
It doesn't change the fact that, after twenty-five consecutive years of
schooling and training, doctors are given a license to do what? That's
right, practice medicine. There is a difference between practicing
something, and achieving something. When we fit this comparison to
medicine, the phrase "life and death" applies in the most literal sense.
With this comparison, it becomes easier to understand why, after two
thousand years, we still use the word "practice."
Doctors rarely go on strike. When they do, the death rate drops quickly,
undeniably, and even measurably. To the wit who claimed it's only because
there's no one around to sign the death certificates, we remind them of a
couple of simple, scary facts.

1.    Literally thousands of Americans died from wrong medication or
misdiagnosis in American hospitals… in the past week. This number has been
repeated, on average, every week for too many years now. Just from wrong
medication or misdiagnosis.
2.    Insurance actuaries assign malpractice insurance rates based in part on
the frequency of their company having to pay out to victims of
malpractice. The astronomical rise in malpractice insurance rates for
doctors is directly related to the equally great rise in the dollars paid
out by insurance companies - to victims of malpractice, the third in this
trilogy of rising numbers.

What exactly do you call the medical student who graduates last in medical
school? Think very, very carefully about your own health, and quality of
life here as you understand that he or she who graduates last in his or
her medical class is called "Doctor." This man or woman, along with the
other forty-eight percent of those who graduate at the bottom half of
their class, will make decisions that you'll tolerate, which as often as
not contribute to how long and how well you and your children live on this
earth. Isn't your life, and the life of your child, important enough for
YOU to be the captain of your ship? We're not saying to excommunicate your
doctor; simply get yourself, and then your doctor, to understand that you
require control of your medical destiny.

The moment you take this control back, you instantly add time to your
life. You see, among a host of other benefits, you'll no longer need to
have a worried-looking doctor telling you you're eating too much fatty
meat, or smoking a bit too much. As your own doctor for all but traumatic
injuries, you'll monitor yourself with more knowledge, less stress, and
therefore better long-term prospects.
If you have piles of money, you can afford to have a doctor in the upper
fifty percent of his or her class, which produces only a mildly better
chance of your benefiting from them. The downside is, the more you pay for
your doctor's services, the more you know that money is his or her
motivator. How bemusing, even sad that our most honored medicos are NOT
those who earn million-dollar incomes, rather, those who invest up to half
or more of their time into helping at inner city clinics and other forms
of service.
      What does it say about the others?
Those who wish to be financially wealthy should be a part of the merchant
class, not medical class. Each time I see a doctor in a Benz, with that
hundred-dollar vanity license plate, I grieve for the thousands of
children who will die in the next twenty-four hours from starvation and
malnutrition. That hundred-dollar vanity would feed, clothe and medicate
five starving children for a month. Children who don't have to die, if
that money-loving moron wasn't more concerned with impressing his
neighbors than with saving lives. Just imagine how many children's lives
he'd save if he drove a used, reliable two or three-thousand dollar car,
and sent the other eighty thousand or more to Save The Children, CCF, or
Habitat for Humanity to help people build their own homes.
I've earned a dollar an hour, and eighteen hundred dollars per hour, and I
still derive enormous pleasure from the same foods I ate back at a buck an
hour: pastas, vegetables, fruits, chocolate, cashews, etc. Maybe that's
part of how I've disproved all those doctors who told me that a functional
life was beyond me. How many times I've laughed, tooling down at a country
highway at considerable speed on one of my motorcycles, or swimming at the
beach with childlike laughing. Surgeon after surgeon after surgeon told me
I would be restricted to a wheelchair no matter WHAT they, we, or I did.
Yet, I've managed to function pretty independently for ten years beyond
those dire prognoses, and beyond.
When you see how doctors and medical professors seminally disagree on so
many of the simplest life-sustaining methods and treatments, from
low-fat/hi-carb, or low-this and high-that, to the simple task of
breathing better, it's time to wake up and smell the coffee: you need to
find out what's best for you, what has worked consistently for other
successful people, and then duplicate the effort, knowing that there are
virtually no known exceptions to the axiomatic truth that duplicating an
effort leads to duplicating the result. It's how you repeat every single
successful task from birth to death. Think about it. Don't just read and
run past. Think about it.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, we all have high-powered shortcuts
available to us that will instantaneously guide you toward a far healthier
life, adding both quantity and quality to your personal existence. In
every case, their effects are also generally experienced immediately, as
well as for the long term.
They've been practiced for literally thousands of years by people who live
longer and better. They are the horse's mouth because the best teachers
are NOT those who know better; it's those who DO better. If you're not
getting it from the horse's mouth, which end of the horse are you getting
it from? Old wives' tales actually tend to be about as worthwhile as the
information touted as "the most current scientific data available." Every
single year of your life, you can find "solid scientific data" that
utterly belies what was "solid scientific data" as recently as a year
earlier. Doesn't this give you a hint you want to heed?
Only a few things have never changed for those who live long and well,
physically.

1.    They do not get all bent out of shape in life's ongoing disasters and
challenges. They accept, and focus on resolution rather than resentment
and complaint. The identical brain energy used to focus on the problem is
persistently channeled into the solution.

No matter what doctors, professors or researchers tell you, we have known
for thousands of years that the absolute number one cause of death on
earth is stress. It is identifiably the single greatest cause of heart
problems, back problems, gastrointestinal disorders, skin problems, and
more.

Even diabetes, although passed on genetically every third generation (and
sometimes even more often) is developed by many people as a direct result
of stress and the dangerous chemicals that the body produces as a direct
result of stress. Bet your bottom dollar that ulcers are NOT caused by
what you eat, rather by what's eating YOU. Dr. Sarno and so many others
have conclusively proven with, get this -- thousands of individual
patients - that literally 99% of all back problems are caused by stinking
thinking. Stop thinking your doctor is God; she's NOT; he's NOT. Better to
learn more from those who are living longer and better lives, right?
2.    They drink more water than you do. Only air is more important than
water.  Period.

3.    They tend to breathe more intelligently than the majority of people
do.When I exhale, I do so thoroughly, ridding myself of far more toxins
than any other method has ever been known to achieve. But, hey, maybe you
know better than the healthiest people of the past couple or few hundred
generations.. Those who know how to breathe properly, those who remember
their childhood habits of breathing deeply and completely, take in more
oxygen than those who breathe shallow breaths. When I make it my business
to take those extra several deep breaths of fresh air each day, my brain
functions more efficiently AND creatively, which is why, since re-adopting
this practice, I've been able to learn to play and compose for piano,
guitar, and harmonica; create at least ten to twenty new columns and
essays every week, along with 45 to 48 other REGULAR activities per week
where my output is no less than ten times what yours is. I'm not smarter
than you; I simply breathe more. Whenever I slack off, so does my
super-productivity, which is Nature's way of reminding the forgetful mind
that above-average health requires above-average efforts!

Every baby born knows how to breathe: all the way out; all the way in. By
the age of 12 or so, when we become so keenly psycho-socio-sexually aware
of ourselves, our breathing patterns are pitiful. An observable analogy
might be the seven-year-old, who, hearing the teacher ask a question, is
straining in the seat with arms waving, URGENTLY needing to display his or
her knowledge to the teacher. At age 12, that same child is still sticking
that arm in the air, the enthusiasm is muted by that unvoiced concern,
"Oh, gee, I hope I don't get it wrong in front of anyone" (refer to
Maslow's hierarchy of human needs: not being made a fool of is more
important to us than a half-dozen other seemingly vital needs). By age 17,
when the teacher asks that question, both of the student's hands are
firmly tucked into the armpits, concomitant with the thought, "ooooh, no;
I'm not making a fool of MYSELF in front of the class."
The analogy to breathing is made because we're so hung up on what other
people think that we literally prioritize their opinion over our own
well-being. When the boss or company is coming, you rush to make the house
neat, and yourself presentable. When was the last time you rushed to make
the house nice for your kids or spouse to come home to a thoroughly
presentable environment? Yeah. Right.
We relinquish control over the most crucial functions in subservience to
other people's opinions, and that is literally killing thousands and
thousands and more thousands of Americans every month. Re-teaching
yourself how to breathe properly is the first, and by far most effective
shortcut you can take towards adding to the quantity and quality of your
life. Exhale completely, and inhale completely. If you're that challenged
by this vitally urgent requirement for a healthy life, challenged at the
thought and deed of breaking out of your (ridiculously uncomfortable)
comfort zone, then try one simple device and reap the benefits instantly,
and within a day or two, measurably.
The device? It's called PRACTICE!!!
This very minute, before you even make a commitment to do it ten times per
day, start with once; start with the first occasion in too long. Right
now, as you read this, force all of the air out of your lungs. When you
think your lungs are empty… think again; there are still AT LEAST two
quarts of air left in your lungs that are dirty and in life-saving need of
being replaced NOW.

Keep pushing that air out. Keep pushing. Believe me, no matter how empty
you think your lungs are, you can find more to push out…. And if you were
offered a hundred grand to push more air out of your lungs than five other
contestants next to you, you'll amaaaaaze yourself with how much
exhalation you're capable of.
OK, you've hit the point of being certain that there's no more air in your
lungs. Slowly, and evenly, breathe allllllll the way in now, through your
nose, refilling your lungs. That's it!!!
Just once is all you're asked to do. Once. In an hour or so, do it again.
Obviously, it's best to do this outside, where you're getting fresh air.
Never mind all that city pollution: it's far healthier than the air you
haven't even been breathing by virtue of the insanely shallow breaths
you've been taking for years!! Doing it inside, however, is fine, as long
as you're not in a room filled with smoke or chemical vapors.
If I were you, I'd be getting very excited, because, having read this far,
it means you DO care enough to want to glean benefits from shortcuts, and
guess what? This one PowerGem brings a slew of benefits you haven't even
guessed at.
A) Engaging in proper respiration INSTANTLY boosts several brain
functions, and for those who actually do a full respiration ten times per
day for the next 22 days? You will find that your thinking is clearer,
faster, and by a powerful measure, more creative. This never fails, it
works for one hundred percent of the people one hundred percent of the
time. Yes, the more you breathe in and out per each lung function or lung
cycle, the higher your intelligence grows.
Nothing changes the fact that, from the precise day that I began breathing
a bit more the way I did in my first year of life, my mind and body have
responded far beyond what any examiner thought was viable, let alone
likely.
B) Your brain requires only two forms of food: tiny amounts of glucose,
and enormous amounts of oxygen. The more oxygen you feed the brain on a
consistent basis, the more it produces for you. When you understand that
your brain is working considerably faster, more creatively, and more
efficiently, you never want to go back. Unfortunately, we are human, so we
require a habit before it becomes second nature. Breathe all the way out,
breathe all the way in, and watch the results. One great way to measure it
is to write down a whacky wish you might have, and try to produce twenty
ideas per day on it for five days. Practice better breathing for 22 days,
and then try the "whacky wish"  test again.        
You'll be astonished.

In every single case, with every single human, astonishing results.
Your ideas will not only be more plentiful, and faster to appear, more
importantly the very quality of your ideas will exceed all but your
wildest imaginings.
As always, you need not take our word for it. Do it every day for even a
week, and you are unconditionally guaranteed to get better and better
results. By then, you'll have learned and gleaned OTHER benefits of this
phenomenal shortcut.     Go for it!!

"A Physician can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines."
Frank Lloyd Wright

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