How To Heal Yourself On Your Own Online 7
How to heal yourself
online with fasting
Here is another way to
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Hygiene Consciousness
Needed
by Herbert M. Sheldon
A number of years ago
Simon Gould went to Florida (from New York) and underwent a fast of
about twenty days. I believe he fasted at Dr. Esser's Hygienic Health
Ranch in Lake Worth, Florida. Several days after the fast was broken
and, while the experience was still fresh in his mind, he wrote me
urging me to proclaim in the Review that fasting is Hygiene and that
all else is merely an adjunct. I had run into this idea many times
before; I have encountered it many times since. The idea that some
one factor of Hygiene is Hygiene does not always cluster around the
fast. Sometimes the thought is expressed that diet is Hygiene, at
other times the opinion is voiced that happiness is Hygiene, or that
physical exercise is Hygiene.
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A recent example of the
idea that fasting is Hygiene was carried in the Hygienews, March,
1973 under the heading "Some of the Instructors Teaching at the
Convention," where we were told the names of the following
speakers and informed that they conducted fasts: "Dr. Keki R.
Sidhwa of England, Director of his own fasting institution; Dr.
William L. Esser, practitioner of Lake Worth, Florida, who has been
conducting fasting for over 35 years; Dr. D. J. Scott, practitioner
of Cleveland, Ohio, with over twenty-five years of experience in the
science of fasting people for the recovery of innumerable ailments; .
. . Dr. J. M. Brosious, St. Petersburg, Florida, who has supervised
fasting for the recovery of health since 1942 . . . . The informed
Hygienist will know that people do not fast for the "recovery of
illness." Who wants to recover illness, anyhow?
I doubt very much that
the writer of the foregoing item about the convention speakers
intended to convey to the readers of Hygienews the idea that fasting
and Hygiene are synonymous terms, but this is precisely the idea that
is conveyed by the language used. Each of the men named wants to be
known as a Hygienist and wants his institution known as a Hygienic
institution, not as a mere fasting place. By putting all the emphasis
on fasting and excluding all mention of Hygiene and the other
Hygienic factors, readers cannot but get the idea that fasting is
Hygiene—diet, exercise, and other Hygienic factors are mere
adjuncts.
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The fast is an
essential factor element in a total plan of life that, in its
wholeness constitutes the only valid means of restoring, as it is the
only valid means of preserving health. The whole plan of life
constitutes Hygiene. What we have just said of the fast may be said,
and indeed we do say it, of every other Hygienic factor. For example,
we may say that exercise is an essenial factor element in a total
plan of life, that in its wholeness constitutes the only valid means
of restoring, as it is the only valid means of preserving health.
It may be
understandable that food is the element of Natural Hygiene that has
the strongest appeal to the neophyte in Hygiene and that he is
inclined to think primarily of this subject when he thinks of
Hygiene. Unless he or she is young and athletically inclined the
importance of exercise is likely to be overlooked, as is also
sunshine, if there is a strong inclination towards prudishnss. Rest
and sleep are factors that may not receive due consideration,
especially by the young. A realization of individual responsibility
is also difficult in people who have been taught, from infancy up, to
depend on the physician and his bag of tricks. They are likely to
want somebody to do for them what they can do for themselves and no
one else can.
An urgent heed among
Hygienists is that of developing Hygiene consciousness. We need to
learn to think of Hygiene as an integrated whole, each factor of
which is correlated with every other factor and cease to think of
Hygiene in terms of particular fragments. When a Hygienic
practitioner or Hygienic establishment is mentioned we need to be
able to think of Hygiene in its wholeness and not think of the
institution as a fasting place or the practitioner as one who
conducts fasts. Not everyone who goes to a Hygienic institution is
given a fast, but everyone eats, rests, exercises and seeks to
acquire emotional poise. Fasting is conducted in many places that are
not Hygienic. A place is not Hygienic merely because fasts are
conducted therein. To label Hygienic institutions as fasting places
will inevitably lead to the confused idea that fasting places- are
Hygienic institutions. Hygienists, of all people, should avoid this
mistake. We should begin today to develop a deeper and broader
understanding of the Hygienic System; we (should learn to think of
Hygiene as bionomy and not as a mere program of fasting. Each factor
element in nature's grand system of Hygiene should be given its
proper place in the integrated whole and thought of as of equal
importance with every other factor, not merely as something that is
an adjunct to the fast but as an essential integer within a vital
synthesis. It is also important that we learn to think of Hygiene as
a means of keeping well and not merely as a means of getting well. It
is in its role as a preserver of health that it assumes highest
importance. It performs no function in the work of restoration that
is different from the work it performs in the work of preserving
health.
Herbert M. Shelton
