Circulation
from Pittsburgh Summer Session Service Number Three
Uranda August
18, 1941 (afternoon)
There are a number of
fundamental things to be considered in any case of ill health. We generally
have an unbalanced physical condition don't we? There is usually a lack of
something—a lack of minerals, a lack of vitamins, a lack of proper digestive
processes, a lack of proper assimilation, a lack of proper elimination, a lack
of proper breathing, a lack of this and that.
When God made man, he made
him according to certain laws. If, then, that is true, is it not better to say,
“It has taken time for me to get into this condition, these laws have been violated,
either by myself or someone else, therefore it doesn't make any difference how
innocent I am, or how ignorant I am, this is the situation, and I am willing to
let it be worked out, step by step, to the glory of God and the Blessing of my
Brother Man.” So one of the first things we need to do is to consider the Circulation of Life through the individual—the manifestation of life.
While I was in Toronto, I
gave a short answer to a point brought up relative to circulation—we
considered circulation. What all is involved in circulation? You think of
the circulation of the air—you do not want a stuffy room; you think of the
circulation of the blood, and the circulation of the air when you breathe, and
that is about as far as you go ordinarily, unless you think about
circulation of money? Circulation covers every phase of being. Where there is
circulation there must be movement, there must be life—there must be circulation
in all functions, in all activity, in all manifestation. Anything that doesn't
circulate is dead. Even then, only the form dies, because the
substance continues to circulate. What happens?
It disintegrates and
circulates back into the soil; from the soil it circulates into the moisture;
from the moisture into the rootlets; from the rootlets into the roots; from the
roots into the plant; from the plant into the fruit or the seed, as the case
may be, and into the animal, or into the human being that eats the plant.
Circulating around in the plant or the animal, it does what? It circulates into
the plant's stomach. What is the plant's stomach? Its leaves. It circulates
into the leaves of the plant, where the plant’s digestion takes place—in the chlorophyll and the sunlight and so on, where inorganic minerals are
changed to organic minerals. How? Why? Under the action of sunlight and cosmic rays, the absorption of the Negative Life Essence, charging the mineral
with life, gives the force of the negative aspect. So on all the way through.
Considering
circulation in your own body, any part of the body where there is not
circulation—such as circulation of the blood, circulation of the life forces,
circulation of the nerve energy—ceases to function properly. Some people think
their minds are circulating, but really, all they are doing is going around in circles
in one spot, failing to circulate mentally. You have to circulate all the way
through your whole being. I won’t go fully into this matter now, I’m only
giving you a few hints—Keys.
We have in the physical
organism, two primary functions (1) assimilation; (2) elimination; and when the
process of assimilation is dominant, the process of elimination is at an ebb;
and when the process of elimination is dominant, the process of assimilation is
at an ebb. This is normal and natural. Normally, the daytime is the primary
period of assimilation, and the night time is the primary period of
elimination. Now most people think of elimination as simply the final elimination
of the substance of the bowels or the kidneys as the case may be, but we must
recognize that elimination begins in the tissues, the elimination of the acids that
form in the tissues—through activities breaking down the tissues, or of the process
of the building of the tissues, or any part of the organism—must be picked up
out of the organism.
If we would take the
simple point of the action in the arm, here. If I were to do this for an hour
or two (Uranda moved his arm back and forth) my arm might begin to get a little
tired. If it were to get tired, what would be the reason? Because the muscles
become weaker? Because there was less energy there to move it back and forth?
No, because the acids—caused by the break-down of the tissues through action—would
begin to accumulate in the tissues, and the blood stream would not be carrying
them away as fast as they were being produced, and the acid remaining in the tissues would
be the cause of tiredness, in that sense. A person says: “Oh, I feel so tired
in the morning”—some people feel tired in the morning. Why?
There are a number of
reasons. We say they have poor blood circulation. Yes, that is so; but that
isn’t all; that is one of the reasons, of course, but poor elimination of the
acids from the tissues is because of poor blood circulation, perhaps; or, it
may be due to the fact that elimination from the bowels or from the kidneys is
not proper, so that there is no place for the blood to take the acids and poisons
that should be picked up from the tissues, so the acids are left there in the
tissues, just stagnant. A person says: “Well, after I get up and move around for
an hour or two in the morning, I begin to feel better; I’m not so tired any more.”
Why? Because the activity begins to move those acids out of the tissues into circulation.
Some form of elimination
takes place through perspiration, or perhaps in other unnatural
ways, as in boils, or something of the sort, or unnatural elimination through
the mucous membranes of the nose and head, and so on. All the way through,
there are various types of unnatural elimination, but the poison has to be
eliminated, does it not? The individual feels tired and he feels lack of strength. Also there is the relationship of air, oxygen and the Negative Life Essence, in connection
with this point of feeling tired.
We find that most ailments, from the
standpoint of assimilation, have their base in the failure of the function of
elimination. Normally, during the night period, the accumulation of the
poisons and the acids is accentuated, and during the activity of the day they
are picked up by the blood stream and carried to the kidneys and bowels, or to
the liver from whence they are released into the bowels, as the case may be, in
various ways. Perhaps some of them are carried into the lungs, where they are
oxidized by the air. When the process of assimilation slows down, the process
of elimination comes up, and if the cycle of elimination is not allowed to
complete itself, in the morning the individual begins to re-absorb the poisons.
The process of assimilation begins again, and while there is a certain
assimilation of food substances, there is a greater assimilation of the poisons
which should have been completely eliminated. So Nature is forced around and
around in a meaningless circle, accomplishing nothing by these two phases or
cycles of life in the body.
That which is to be
eliminated, must be carried clear on out of the body if the individual is to
have true health. One of the greatest difficulties with which we have to
contend is elimination—failure of the bowels to function properly, failure to have
proper peristaltic action, failure of the liver to function—and why? What are
the causes? Why do these things happen? What can be done about them?
Of course, many people
eat a lot of pastry, bread, concentrated carbohydrates, a lot of candy and such
things, and then say: “I don't understand why I do not have proper
elimination.” Others say, “I haven't eaten these things excessively for years.
I have been very careful about my diet, and I still don't have perfect elimination.”
Did you ever have such a problem? What can we do to increase elimination? Many
things. Of course, primarily, to begin with, one must cut down on any excess of
carbohydrates—but be sure you get a sufficient amount of carbohydrates for your
needs; get a certain amount of natural roughage, preferably of green
vegetables, leafy vegetables, in the raw state.
Then, we have to consider
the proper drinking of water. In the morning, when you first arise, one or two
glassfuls of water with a little bit of lemon juice—not a full half, in each
glass—water, just a little cooler
than lukewarm, with a little bit of lemon juice in it, will help to wash
out the stomach and intestines, because the stomach and intestines are lined, in
the morning, with substances that have to be eliminated from the body, and are thrown
into the stomach and intestines to be eliminated. But if you do not wash this refuse
out properly, if you eat immediately without that proper washing, the food goes
down there and mixes with that which should be eliminated, and then is re-absorbed
with the food. It is taken right back into the body, right back into the blood
stream and then you wonder why you do not have proper health. So it is a good
thing to take a little lemon—not too much. It acts like a soap, shall we say?
Did you ever try to take
a bath in a teacup of water? It wouldn't be satisfactory. Well, then, how about
the internal bath with a teaspoonful of water or two? You need plenty of water
the first thing in the morning, to wash out the stomach and the intestines, and
you will find that it goes a very long way toward producing a natural, bowel
elimination. You shouldn't eat anything, or drink anything else, for at least fifteen
minutes after taking your lemon water. A little lime juice in the water is all
right, or sometimes you may use some grapefruit
juice in it, if you like. You may use more grapefruit juice than lemon juice and
you will get wonderful results. Then, you need a breakfast according to your activities.
I might mention here that in spite of the fact that I have frequently emphasized the necessity of
walking the Central Way, avoiding extremes; and I have also pointed out that
people, according to climatic conditions, need various kinds of food—and yet
some people have gone to extremes in connection with the idea of following Keys to Health. I found quite
a number of individuals who were actually starving themselves,
thinking that they were following Keys to
Health properly. We, of course, do not advocate that anyone should starve
himself. I have so frequently warned individuals
not to go to extremes.
Our next point
relates to proper breathing. I wonder how many of you know how to
breathe? Let’s see your hands. I see you are learning to be properly cautious
as Emissaries, lest you step into a trap. I think I’ll ask you another
question. How many of you are interested in learning how to breathe? All right!
You are sufficiently enthusiastic to allow us to continue.
Very few people know how
to breathe abdominally. You know, most people just breathe a little bit up
here, at the top of the lungs. If they want to take a deep breath, they think
it just means throwing out the chest and pulling the abdomen in and exhaling.
Of course, it is possible to take a deep breath that way, and for certain types
of breathing, it is all right—but true abdominal breathing means that when you
take a deep breath, your chest remains about as before, and your abdomen
extends. You extend the abdomen when you take a deep breath, and when you
exhale, you draw the abdomen in—and in that way you begin to experience a new
release of life forces, begin to increase peristaltic action, begin to move the
diaphragm up and down, begin to get away from the congestion which most people have
around the solar plexus.
The solar plexus has a
very close relationship to all of the unconscious functions of the organs—the
automatic functions of the organs. It is a
central point through which the nerve impulses pass, and if we have congestion
of the blood at that point, the whole thing begins to be sluggish, and unless
you breathe abdominally you cannot keep the blood circulating properly around
the solar plexus, and if there is not the proper radiance of life impulse from
there, the organs themselves are bound to become sluggish. So, moving the diaphragm
up and down, through proper breathing, and moving the abdominal walls in and out,
tends to increase peristaltic action of the intestines, tends to increase the
circulation of the blood around the solar plexus, tends to activate the
function of all the organs, tends to gently massage the organs and increase
their effectiveness, and also, it tends to increase the amount of the Negative
Life Essence that you absorb into your body, and tends to increase the amount
of oxygen in the body.
The oxygen, of course, is
very important, but you cannot absorb the oxygen and use it unless you have
the proper amount of natural organic iron in your body. So it isn’t just a
matter of breathing, it is a matter of having the proper minerals in relationship
to breathing, with the proper iron, and if you carry the proper oxygen, the
proper Negative Life Essence, you begin to reach a point where the life forces
can increase. Here is a point where many people fall down in their
understanding. They say: “I pray to God for
healing, and I don’t understand why I don't receive that healing.” Suppose God were arbitrarily to throw out the Radiance of
His Power into the individual, what would happen? The body would be burned up. Many
times you may say God does not answer your prayer the way you think it ought to
be answered. Why? Because He knows that if He answered it that it would destroy
you. An increase of the Power from God is possible, on an effective,
constructive basis, only to the degree that there is something to act upon; if
there is nothing to act upon, then an increase of the Fire would simply
destroy the body, and God does not destroy.
Therefore, we find that
in all creative processes in the Negative Triune World—what do we have to
have?—we have something to start with. God does not create something out of nothing,
does he? No, God does not create something out of nothing. He always uses
something to start with, even clear back to the point of the unformed. He uses the
unformed to begin the vibration; therefore, any re-creative act, whether
instantaneous or otherwise, requires that there be something to act upon, and
if there be nothing to act upon, how can the Power of God do anything about it?
You begin to see the necessity of providing that upon which God
can act, and through which the Power of God can work. If this is true, you
begin to see the need of proper breathing, as well as proper eating. There are
many different ways of breathing which we may properly consider. I think we’ll
have to do a little demonstrating.
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