Health is a frame of mind, a matter of attitude.

 

People are pre-occupied with disease and not with optimum health factors that could bring about a complete and perfect functioning of all the organs in their body.

 

By making just a few changes, the health benefits that you gain can be incredible.

 

You are going to learn an enjoyable way to improve your health.

 

When you incorporate all the ideas, you may observe many changes taking place within your body.

 

These can range from weight loss, to sleeping better, having more energy or just an overall general healing.

 

Every body has their own unique level of health, so the system’s effect can be equally unique for you.

 

You may not even feel like the same person anymore after you start to implement The Optimal Health System.

 

You will learn to look at your health as if it is a present that you are giving yourself everyday for the rest of your life.

 

So go a head and start to give yourself the present of excellent health.

 

Put It In Writing

 

It gives you power to put things in writing.

 

There is a remarkably enhanced likelihood of attaining your goals and following your strategies when you write things down.

 

Keep a journal as you experience all the different sensations and changes that are going to be taking place within you. 

 

You have a choice of your recording method that you are going to use for your journal.

 

It could be a specially designated book that you could write in or you could do it on your computer.

 

You should use the most simple and easiest method for your journal.

 

Some people like to write in their journals what they found to be most useful.

 

It will be a great help to you to read over the most important material daily.

 

This will help you to absorb and incorporate the information into your daily life.

 

The Power Of A Vision

 

The most powerful motivational technique that can help a person reach their goals is to set their vision.

 

The vision will empower you to follow through when the going gets tough.

 

A person with a vision can get a shift in their outlook and perspective of their situation.

 

A vision opens up a person’s creative genius to come up with ideas to get what they want.

 

I would like to share an article written by Carie Broecker in Reach For Your soul: A Journey Into Healing, Writer’s Showcase Books, 2002

 

Reaching For Health

 

“I didn’t know how I was Going to heal myself. I only knew I wanted to do so. I had read several stories over the years about people who used visualization to heal cancer.

 

A young boy with leukemia had visualized the video game Pac Man eating his cancer cells. He went into remission.

 

A man with a brain tumor visualized a large eraser erasing the tumor. The tumor was gone the next time he saw his doctor.

 

Another man was told his liver was diseased and it was impossible for a liver to regenerate itself. He was hooked up to a machine for life.

 

For lack of anything else to do with his time, while lying in bed, he visualized his liver being pink and healthy.

 

His visualizations were methodical. He worked on one small section of his liver at a time.

 

The tubes that hooked him to the machine were accidentally ripped out one day, and he was rushed to the hospital.

 

An x-ray was taken to see how much damage had been done.

 

When the doctor saw the x-ray, he demanded to know where the man had gotten his new liver. This is not your liver, the doctor insisted.

 

This is a perfectly healthy liver.”

 

Visualization is a powerful emotional force that can transcend limitations of medical science. With that in mind let us get started on helping you to set your vision of a healthier you.

 

No experience is as deeply satisfying and rewarding as the experience of improving your health.

 

You have more choices about your health than you think you do, and your health affects every aspect of your life.

 

Your health affects your self-confidence, your self-image, your family, your happiness, your career, your spiritual pursuits, your dreams, your pleasures, your fun and your success.

 

When you create a larger vision for your health, you consciously make a decision to create a larger vision for your life, too.

 

Creating Your Vision For Your Health!

 

What would your vision of a healthy body look like for you?

 

Imagine what your life would be like. Imagine being free from pain; free from all the symptoms that have kept you from doing what you want to do with your life.

 

It’s a feeling you may not have had for a long time, but it can be recaptured; it’s a feeling you may never have had, but you can create it for yourself. You can do it.

 

Can you picture a wonderful, joyful vision of what you would be like at your peak health?

 

Imagine how it would feel to really be at your best?

 

Can you imagine feeling really good?

 

Can you see yourself in top form?

 

Can you imagine what it would be like to have this incredible health?

 

Now picture the future, and create the vision of a healthy you that would be wonderful, joyful and exciting.

 

Allow yourself to picture your ideal health.

 

Once you identify the vision, concentrate, and spend a minute or two fully experiencing it.

 

Hear the sounds in your head.

 

Visualize clearly the things and details you notice.

 

How good does this vision make you feel?

 

Put The Vision In Writing

 

Now write out your vision in detail. Putting your vision in writing will give you power. Be as specific as you can be.

 

Give your vision a name.

 

As simple as this may seem, your vision is going to help you move forward in your quest for excellent health. Use your vision to help create a feeling of empowerment.

 

Next, create a powerful and personally meaningful reminder of your vision. This reminder might, for instance, be a large colorful sign put in a place that you frequently see, or a message on your computer’s screensaver.

 

Make your vision a place you can go to anytime.

 

If a negative thought nags at you, go to your vision. Let the wonderful, warm feelings of your vision wash away the negativity.

 

Never spend more than 15 seconds in a “negative place,” or you risk it becoming a part of you. Use the wonderful feelings from your vision to replace any negative thoughts and feelings.

 

 

So go ahead and create your vision of a healthy you.

 

Write it down, and don’t forget to give your vision a name.

 

Here is a sample of a simple yet powerful vision that a client shared with me.

 

He calls it “Running Like A Deer”

 

“My vision is a dream that I have of myself as a fine looking young man with a sleek muscular body. In the dream I am running like a deer with little or no effort. I am in perfect health and completely free from pain and sickness. I have regenerated all the powerful athletic feelings of my youth.”

 

Your vision is going to help keep you grounded for many years after you finished this book.

 

Experience your vision and use your vision to feel empowered.

 

“Turning On The Motivation”

 

You must be passionate about improving your health.

 

It's easy to focus on goals such as weight loss or being more rested. But if there's no passion behind those goals, no underlying motivation to achieve them, you are going to

struggle and not know why.

 

If you want to create breakthrough results then we must focus on your personal reasons that you really want.

 

Your reasons for great health must become clear and important to you. When that clarity comes to you, the barriers to success seem to disappear. Then all you have to do is work the system.

 

There is an important question you must answer before we begin working on your goals.

 

A lack of motivation and failure to follow the plan can result if you don’t answer this question.

 

Answer it in writing:

 

WHY DO I WANT THE BEST HEALTH POSSIBLE?

 

Your answers are far more complex than “I want to,” "I need to," or "I should". There are reasons behind your goals and dreams, usually dozens of them.

 

Once you realize what your true reasons are, you’ll have far more success in following the guidelines set out in this course and making your dreams and goals reality.

 

Go ahead and list every single reason.

 

WHY DO I WANT THE BEST HEALTH POSSIBLE?

 

Try to imagine all the benefits you will enjoy after reaching your goal.

 

The longer your list is, the stronger your motivation will be.

 

Read your reasons when you rise every morning; ideally, hang your list on the wall.

 

Constant reminders of the benefits of each goal will keep you focused on the program and motivated to complete every step.

 

While I have the ideas, tools and strategies to teach you to use to produce results. I can't do it for you. You have to take the responsible for producing your own results.

 

This is your life we are dealing with here. You need to take full responsibility for your health. No one else can do it for you. The best doctor in the world cannot help you the way you can help yourself.

 

Listed below are examples from clients on their reasons for wanting the best health possible.

 

Do any of these reasons apply to you?

 

What other personal reasons do you have that you could add to your own list?

 

Feeling good with no aches and pains.

Don’t want to use medication.

Want to enjoy life after stopping working.

Don’t want to end up sick in old age.

Want to lose weight and keep it off so that I look good.

Want to feel good.

Want to play baseball with my grand son.

Want to be able to travel after retirement.

Don’t want to go to a hospital.

Don’t want to be a burden on my children.

Want to stay independent.

Want to stay in my home.

Want to live to be very old and extremely healthy.

Want to continue to play hockey every week.

Want to win my company’s healthy employee contest.

Want to get off all my medication.

Want to feel young.

Want to keep my figure.

Want to stay active.

Want to live my life to the fullest capacity.

Want to be able to take care of my family.

Want to keep working as long as possible.

Want to be strong.

Want to be able to continue to have fun.

Want to keep my present lifestyle.

Want good health so that I can continue to take care of my parents and children, they depend on me so much.

Don’t want to end up sick in a home somewhere.

Don’t want to feel my age.

Don’t have health insurance.

Don’t have life insurance.

 

These are all good examples of other people’s reasons for great health.

 

But, what I am really interested in is your personal reasons.

 

This simple exercise is so powerful to help you move forward.

 

Please don’t skip it.

 

It must be stressed again that one of the most important tasks to be successful in implementing the suggestions in this coaching book is to do all the written assignments.

 

Your outcome will also depend on your level of commitment.

 

I have to share a story with you about a person that bought a hard copy of my book right after it was published. This person was overweight and on many prescriptions.

 

He called me one day and told me that he was going on an extensive business trip where he would be gone a couple months.

 

He told me that he had made a commitment to himself to implement all the suggestions in the book while he was on this trip.

 

The day after he came back he called me and told me that the weight just poured off him and that he has never felt so good in his whole life.

 

He wants to take his health further and wants me to work with him as his coach.

 

Are you ready to make a commitment to yourself?

 

Most people give up too soon. Half the battle is won by showing up. Some people have a fear of failure, and if you never complete something, you cannot fail.

 

Again, it is of vital importance that everything is written down and recorded. It is harder to hide from yourself when you put it in writing. 

 

Writing it down gives you the power to succeed!

 

Goal Charting

 

It is very useful to chart your goals. This will help you observe your progress. This involves listing and detailing all the personal health issues that you are tolerating.

 

You must write everything down that you feel is affecting your health. List each issue separately. Make your list simple and uncomplicated, with each issue expressed in a sentence or two.

 

Make the list as long as you want.

 

If you are fortunate enough to have no health problems, then you need to begin setting and determining realistic attainable goals to take your health to the next level.

 

Again, list all the goals that you would like to achieve, list each goal separately and express each goal in a sentence or two. Make the list as long as you want.

 

Measuring Your Goals

 

Now that you have listed all your issues and goals, you must evaluate each issue or goal separately in order to determine what your condition was before you started to  implement the system.

 

On a weekly basis over the next few months, you must re-evaluate any gains you have made and record them.

 

The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with a measuring stick to see in what areas the system helps you to heal or increase overall health and well being.

 

It is critically important to know where you started, so you can accurately assess changes in the weeks and months after you began implementing the system.

 

Here are three examples of goal charting to demonstrate how to chart your health issues and goals while you are incorporating The Optimal Health System.

 

Example One

The person’s health issue is being overweight. Their goal is to lose 45 pounds of their extra weight and keep it off. The start date is recorded along with the starting weight. Every week the person would record their new weight.

 

Example Two

The person’s health issue is that they are getting up to urinate numerous times during the night. Because of this they do not feel rested in the morning. Their goal is to sleep through the night without getting up to urinate. The start date is recorded along with how many times they are getting up every night. Every week the person would keep track of how many times they got up to urinate at night.

 

Example Three

The person’s goal is to walk faster. They want to increase the distance that they can walk in 30 minutes. Their ultimate goal is to be able to walk two miles in 30 minutes. The start date is recorded along with how far they can currently walk now in 30 minutes. Every week the person would keep track of their new distance.

 

Now it is your turn to formulate and put into writing all your health issues and goals.

 

You have to be absolutely clear about what you want achieve before you start using the system. This builds a more solid foundation for bigger gains later on.

 

Tracking and measuring your progress can be one of the major keys to your success. If you don't measure the progress from where you were to where you are, it's easy to lose motivation and momentum.

 

As a result of seeing your movement you will stick with the system.

 

A weekly checklist helps you document your successes.

 

By focusing on the progress you’ve made, celebrating it, appreciating it and recognizing it, you will build momentum, confidence, optimism and positive expectations.

 

All of those things will help you to produce even more results to do more and take on more.

 

Seeing measurable results from your health issues and goals will motivate you to stay on the system and take your health to a high level of maintenance.

 

If you haven’t done so yet, can you make your list of health issues and goals?

 

The Secret To Excellent Health And Long Life

 

The secret to having excellent health, really feeling good and maintaining your ideal weight is quite simple. All you have to do is learn how to take care of your digestive system.

 

That’s all there is to it.

 

Your digestive system is an extremely important part of your body. Without it, you couldn't get the nutrients you need to function properly and stay healthy.

 

The major function of the digestive system is to break down food and provide a means by which the nutrients can be absorbed in the body. Nutrients that are liberated by this process allow the body to grow, heal and function on a day-to-day basis.

 

Unfortunately it is very common for this process to be disrupted. A wide range of factors can influence how well the digestive system functions including dietary habits, medication

and emotional wellness.

 

An estimated two-thirds of people suffer from gastrointestinal problems, which often leads to malabsorption of nutrients.

 

What makes this so important is that much of your health is riding on your body’s ability to absorb nutrients.

 

One cause of obesity is that the body does not get the nutrients it needs, even though a large quantity of food is consumed.

 

Absorption of nutrients is a process that takes place at the atomic scale or size. Digestion is the processes of breaking food down from the human scale where we measure in inches to the atomic scale were things are measured in angstroms.

 

All the nutrients that your body needs are atoms and molecules and they exist as particles of a size measured at an atomic scale.

 

This means the food we eat must be broken down to literally millions of very tiny pieces. This process takes a great deal of work. Because the process is intricate and involves many delicate processes it needs to be treated with respect.

 

The remainder of this course deals with teaching you how to take care of your digestive system and give yourself the respect that you deserve.

 

Taking care of your digestive system can change your entire life around.

 

Here is a quote from Saul A. who purchased a copy of

THE OPTIMAL HEALTH SYSTEM when it was being sold as a hardcopy.

 

“THE OPTIMAL HEALTH SYSTEM reaches far beyond the scope of traditional dieting and health plans.

 

In a coulter of indulgement, that bigger is better, the THE OPTIMAL HEALTH SYSTEM’S sound advice, teaches one how to control their eating habits, and eventually their life.

 

I have found that it has made me a better and more appreciative person, and in doing so has made me care for others and myself.

 

I have noticed an increased energy level by getting rid of the toxins in my body in a non-painful way without drugs. Everyone will benefit in some way from this program.”

Saul A.

 

The remainder this book is to teach you how to do that and much more.

 

Whenever your body does any type of action, it expends energy. Your body sends this energy to where it is needed.

 

When you are ill or even just not feeling well, you should not exert yourself physically; your body needs all its energy to heal itself.

As you start to take care of your digestive system you will create and tap into energy that you never knew you possessed.

 

Once unleashed, your body can send all this newfound energy to areas of the body overwhelmed and in poor condition.

 

The result.

 

Energy to heal and energize you!

 

The body has a marvelous built-in repair system.

 

As soon as you start to incorporate all the ideas in the rest of this book, you will start to provide your body with enough spare energy to experience a general healing with respect to your particular situation and level of health.

 

Taking care of your digestive system is also an important way to bolster your immune system.

 

A person with a healthy immune system rarely gets sick and the body functions at an optimal level.

 

The secret is to make sure that your food does not stay in your bloodstream too long. This can be a great danger to the body.

 

Our goal by the end of this course is that your digestive system is working at its best to expel toxicities from your body.

 

The body caring for itself is a theme throughout the entire OPTIMAL HEALTH SYSTEM process.

 

The Biggest Change That Will Help You Lose Weight!

 

Weight loss is the eternal quest for so many of us.

 

It’s no wonder we’re always trying to lose weight with weight loss being so confusing.

 

First they tell us not to eat fat. Then they tell us not to eat carbohydrates. Then they tell us to eat fats but only the right kind. Then they tell us to eat carbohydrates but only the brown kind….

 

What’s a person to do?

 

It’s safe to say that the diet rules are going to keep changing.

 

After all, every time the rules change, they can sell another batch of diet books.

 

What about all the weight loss products being sold today?

 

We have to look for a constant in the dieting madness that does not change.

 

It’s really quite simple. In fact it’s simplicity at its finest.

 

The secret is take care of your digestive system and it will take care of you.

 

The majority of people’s obesity and health problems are from not taking care of their digestive systems properly.

 

Ensuring that the digestive system is functioning properly is a necessary first step to reaping the benefits of weight loss, maintaining your weight and awesome health.

 

You are going to find out exactly what is needed for a healthy digestive system to work properly.

 

You will be given all the tools that you will need to have this delicate process run efficiently.

 

You will not have to spend any money on weight loss products.

 

The digestive system functioning at its optimal level is one of the biggest steps towards improving your overall health and losing excess weight.

 

You will now be presented with a summary on how the digestive system works.

 

The Human Digestive System

 

The digestive system is one of the greatest parts of the human body.

 

It mashes and mixes up food, it makes chemicals to break the food down so your body can use the nutrients, it filters out dangerous substances, and it even lets your body get rid of leftover waste.

 

So there you are, sitting at lunch, enjoying an anchovy covered pizza and a few orange wedges. When you’ve finished, you take a last drink of milk and head back to work.

 

In a few minutes you're thinking about your new work project. You've completely forgotten about the pizza that you just ate. However, it's still in your stomach.

 

So How Does Your Digestive System Work?

 

Your digestive system started working even before you took the first bite of your pizza. The digestive system will be busy at work on your chewed-up lunch for the next few hours - or sometimes days - depending upon what you've eaten.

 

This process, called digestion, allows your body to get the nutrients and energy it needs from the food you eat. So let's find out what's happening to that pizza, orange, and milk.

 

The Mouth Starts Everything Moving

 

Even before you eat, when you smell a tasty food, see it, or think about it, digestion begins. Saliva begins to form in your mouth.

 

When you do eat, the saliva breaks down the chemicals in the food a bit, which helps make the food become mushy and easy to swallow. Your tongue helps out, pushing the food around while you chew with your teeth.

 

When you're ready to swallow, the tongue pushes a tiny bit of mashed-up food called a bolus toward the back of your throat and into the opening of your esophagus, the second part of the digestive tract.

 

The esophagus is like a stretchy pipe that's about 10 inches long. It moves food from the back of your throat to your stomach.

 

But also at the back of your throat is your windpipe, which allows air to come in and out of your body. When you swallow a small ball of mashed-up food or liquids, a special flap called the epiglottis flops down over the opening of your windpipe to make sure the food enters the esophagus and not the windpipe.

 

If you've ever drunk something too fast, started to cough, and heard someone say that your drink "went down the wrong way," the person meant that it went down your windpipe by mistake. This happens when the epiglottis doesn't have enough time to flop down, and you cough involuntarily (without thinking about it) to clear your windpipe.

 

Once food has entered the esophagus, it doesn't just drop right into your stomach. Instead, muscles in the walls of the esophagus move in a wavy way to slowly squeeze the food through the esophagus. This takes about 2 or 3 seconds.

 

In The Stomach

 

Your stomach is attached to the end of the esophagus. It's a stretchy sack shaped like the letter J. It has three important jobs:

 

·      To store the food you've eaten.

·      To break down the food into a liquid type of mixture.

·      To slowly empty that liquid type of mixture into the small intestine.

 

The stomach is like a mixer, churning and mashing together all the small balls of food that came down the esophagus into smaller and smaller pieces.

 

It does this with help from the strong muscles in the walls of the stomach and gastric juices that also come from the stomach's walls.

 

In addition to breaking down food, gastric juices also help kill bacteria that might be in the eaten food.

 

The Small Intestine

 

The small intestine is a long tube that's about 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches around, and it's packed inside you beneath your stomach. If you stretched out an adult's small intestine, it would be about 22 feet long.

 

The small intestine breaks down the food mixture even more so your body can absorb all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.

 

Your pizza is full of proteins and fat. The small intestine can help extract them with a little help from three friends; the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder.

 

Those organs send different juices to the first part of the small intestine. These juices help to digest food and allow the body to absorb nutrients.

 

The pancreas makes juices that help the body digest fats and protein. A juice from the liver called bile helps to absorb fats into the bloodstream. And the gallbladder serves as a warehouse for bile, storing it until the body needs it.

 

Your food may spend as long as 4 hours in the small intestine and will become a very thin, watery mixture. It is time well spent because, at the end of the journey, the nutrients from your pizza, orange, and milk can pass from the intestine into the blood.

 

Once in the blood, your body is closer to benefiting from the complex carbohydrates in the pizza crust, the vitamin C in your orange, the protein in the anchovies, and the calcium in your milk.

 

Next stop for these nutrients is the liver. The leftover waste or remnants of the food that your body can't use goes on to the large intestine.

 

The Liver

 

The nutrient-rich blood comes directly to the liver for processing. The liver filters out harmful substances or wastes, turning some of the waste into more bile.

 

The liver even helps figure out how many nutrients will go to the rest of the body, and how many will stay behind in storage. For example, the liver stores certain vitamins and a type of sugar your body uses for energy.

 

The Large Intestine

 

At 3 or 4 inches around the large intestine is fatter than the small intestine and it's almost the last stop on the digestive tract. Like the small intestine, it is packed into the body, and would measure 5 feet long if you spread it out.

 

The large intestine has a tiny tube with a closed end coming off it called the appendix. It's part of the digestive tract and we are still trying to figure out exactly what the appendix does. Sometimes it can cause big problems if it gets infected and needs to be removed.

 

Like we mentioned, after most of the nutrients are removed from the food mixture, there is waste left over - stuff your body can't use. This stuff needs to be passed out of the body.

 

Before it goes, it passes through the part of the large intestine called the colon, which is where the body gets its last chance to absorb the water and some minerals into the blood.

 

As the water leaves the waste product, what's left gets harder and harder as it keeps moving along, until it becomes a stool and is ready to become a bowel movement.

 

The large intestine pushes the stool into the rectum, the very last stop on the digestive tract. The solid waste stays here until you are ready to use the washroom.

 

When you use the washroom, you are getting rid of this solid waste by pushing it through the anus.

 

I hope that this has given you a better understanding of how your digestive system works.

 

Now you are ready to start learn some of the ideas that begins the process of taking care of your digestive system.

 

Sorry, but that concludes the book preview.

 

The remainder of the book will present to you specific action steps that you can implement to take care of your digestive system.

 

After you start to implement The Optimal Health System, you will lose weight and start to feel great.

 

You will find out about all the things that people are doing wrong, that are causing obesity and destroying their health.

 

You will be given the solutions to have great health and to lose weight.

 

You will look good!

 

You will feel great!

 

You will lose weight!

 

Most of all, you will always wonder what would have happened to your health if you never would have read

 

THE OPTIMAL HEALTH SYSTEM

 

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