Loving Regards,
Marietjie

Sleeping is one time that all humans are in a different state of consciousness. The alpha level of brain activity happens when people are entering sleep and waking up. The theta level is a where people go under deep hypnosis or deep meditation, and in the early stages of sleep.21 Hypnosis and eastern meditative techniques purposely put someone in an altered state of consciousness with the hope of learning something about the unconscious or subconscious mind or contacting the world of the spirits.

Foster claims that what he often receives through meditation is guidance for solving problems and living a better life, approvingly citing Kelsey to that end.22 He points out that people who are not religious have other uses for meditation:

It may have value in dropping our blood pressure or in relieving tension. It may even provide us with meaningful insights by helping us get in touch with our subconscious mind. But the idea of actual contact and communion with a spiritual sphere of existence sounds unscientific and faintly reasonable. If you feel that we live in a purely physical universe, you will view meditation as a good way to obtain a consistent alpha brain-wave pattern.23

Morton Kelsey describes altered states of consciousness and the benefits of them. He describes various versions of Eastern religion which enable the “conscious mind to halt.”25 Writes Kelsey, “In both Yoga and Zen meditation, the activity of the brain changes. Alpha and sometimes theta waves are produced, and in both of these the capacity of the mind changes.”26 He says, “[P]sychic gifts often depend on a state of relaxation like this. The most gifted psychics often have to relax to the point where silence begins to take over before they can tune in to these gifts.”27 The following material is Kelsey telling what sort of capacities can be gained by being in an altered state of consciousness through Eastern forms of meditation:

A person may become open to telepathy and thus know what is going on in other people’s minds, to precognition, . . . to clairvoyance, . . . or to psychokinesis (one’s thoughts have some kind of direct effect upon physical objects, including healing of humans beings). These capacities are often found among Hindu gurus, Zen masters, or anyone who uses deep meditation, as well as among Christian saints. They appear to be one of the results of continued meditation. There is danger, of course, if people enter meditation just to find these capacities.28

http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue83.htm

I know that visualization techniques work as
I learned the method from an organisation called the
Pacific Institute in Seattle Washington more than 30 years
ago.

I used the techniques to tame a teenager in my class who could
be nicely referred to as a handful. What’s more it worked! In fact
she got an A from me (very hard to do) for 2 out of the 3 terms I had her.

I hadn’t thought about using the same sort of techniques to get a healthy body
until I picked up Jon’s book.

I’ll keep you all informed

Cher
Auckland, New Zealand

I read all the comments on this book, what I would like to know .. is this book available in South Africa, Johannesburg .

I was just thinking about my weight last night and this morning happen to read about Gabriel method.
Would love to know were to get this.

Thought id share my experiences in the hope the it inspires/convinces you to give it a try.
I’m a male my late 20’s.

Ok so over the last 20 months ive lost approx 30kg. (i didnt write down my peak weight as i was too embarrased with myself.. but it was about 115 - 117kg)
I’ve always been up and down with my weight ever since i was a kid. I think the main thing when i was young is that i generally consumed too much food. and was not active enough. The bigger the size of food on my plate the more my eyes loved it. hehe hey.. food is a beaut thing.
I was never huge on junk food and i’ve always consumed a very low sugar intake in terms of soft drinks , donuts, fast food etc. Soft drinks are probably the WORST liquid you could consume in my opinion. loaded with sugar, and good knows what… ESPECIALLY COKE… yuck. Do your insides a favour.. dont go near it. Who knows how big i would have been if id consumed the amount of soft drink people do.

Anyways, from jan 07 to june 07 i lost about 8 - 10kg. It took time to get the fitness up at the gym being that overweight, so it took time and the weight came off slowly. My diet wasnt too bad but to be honest i cant exactly remember what i was eating. It definately lacked in omega 3 etc. Before heading OS in July i was surfing the net and came by an ad for the gabriel method. So i checked it out. I’ve NEVER purchased any books or gimmicks nor been on any fad diets or any other marketing BS.. But something about the gabriel method sounded interesting so i received it just in time before i headed OS for 4 weeks.
Read the book in an entire day whilst waiting for a flight at hong kong airport.
Got home and started putting everything into place. I bought a bag of flaxseed, purchased a coffee bean grinder to crush the flax, purchased 90% of my food from the local growers, listened to the meditation cd most nights to begin with (still listen to it from time to time as i find its like a reset button if i find myself getting off track and unfocused) and i train at the gym 3 -6 times per week. My training is currently based on carb cyclying. so i consume starch based carbs (oats, wholewheat pasta, sweet potato) on weight training days and only salads and vegies on cardio days and i don’t combine weights and cardio in the one training session. Carb cycling keeps me feeling good and makes recovering from weight training a little easier as i am trying to put on size. However on my cardio only days the idea is too keep sugar levels even and as low as possible whilst eating 5 - 7 times on both days so your metabolism is nice and fast. plus protein all days of course and always consuming almonds, walnuts and sometimes fish oil tablets. However im a bit suss on fish oil tablets.
i also have the odd pizza or lasagna… fast food only when im hungover.. haha
my alcohol intake varies, when i drink beer i drink lots in the one session (every couple of weeks) and i love red wine. on average i have a few glasses a week. but then dont touch it for a month.. always changes. I never drink beer during the week.

So since starting the gabriel method ive lost about 22kg. im aiming to be about 80kg in several weeks. First time in a LONG time.. happy days. total of approx 35 - 37kg. Hopefully that will be almost 6 pack material soon.

Alongside the gabriel method’s recommendations - i really recommend consuming as little processed foods as humanly possible. If it came from a plant, eat it, if it was made IN a plant, DO NOT EAT IT!!!!!!. simple yeh? Once you loose the weight and stick to that basic principle, exercise a little and get good sleep you should be sweet from fat gain for the rest of your life.

Supporting my claim of the above… Take a walk around Sydney’s CBD and have a real good look at the general population. LOTS of overweight people, (their fat looks like its a shield from the stresses of their daily lives…puffy/bloated look.) consuming WAY too much dairy from all the cappaccino’s and trans fat/sugars/bread from processed/city fast foods. Lets not forget sitting behind a desk for 10 to 12 hours per day and no sunlight.
Oh yeh can i also mention staying away from flour/grain based foods and milk. We DO NOT NEED too much of it. Bread…. dont touch it. its rubbish. Dont care if its white, wholegrain its all crap. I like rye, rarely eat it though and im still unsure about it. Milk.. soooo processed… there is way more calcium in brocolli. The dairy industry just say its high in calcium (but high to what? haha) so we consume it.. dont believe what’s marketed to you.
Organic milk if anything.

Another thing to take note of is i’ve not eaten commercial CEREAL OR TOAST for breakfast in almost 2 years. (ok.. the odd time when im not at home but only because there was nothing else to stick in my gob…VERY RARE.)
Apart from oats and wit bix and some muesli mixes i would really avoid putting any of them in your mouth ever again. Its all loaded with sugar, preservatives etc. and THEY ARE NOT ‘FOOD’! Like most of the packaged stuff on coles/woolworths shelves.

My fav breakfast…. and let me tell you.. it will make you feel awesome… EVERYDAY!

My smoothie recipe….
- 1 - 2 cups frozen raw blueberries
- 1 or 2 table spoons organic coconut milk/cream
- 1 - 2 tablespoons crushed flaxseed
- 1 table spoon whey protein
- 2 eggs.. 1 yolk
- if i did weight training that morning 2 tablespoons oats
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon ( or to taste.. also helps keep sugar levels stable)
- tble spoon honey
- half a cup water or depends how thick you like it… experiment!

BLEND!

Ok.. i know blueberries are expensive… IF YOU DONT LOOK AROUND..
Search out for your cities frozen berry supplier.
If you live in Sydney you can purchase a 12kg box of blueberries for $96 yep.. cheap, REALLY healthy and you’ll never go back to cereal EVER again.
They also sell lots of other berries. I wish i got commission for this..haha

http://www.berryman.com.au

If society doesn’t start paying serious attention to all the toxins they’re consuming the human race really is in for a rude shock over the next century.

Dont believe me..? take a really good look around at all the toxins (i.e fat) hanging off pretty much everyone.

If your into reading, some other great books i’ve read since the gabriel method are:

- The four hour work week
- I will teach you to be rich

The final thing id like to say is a quote from the four hour work week….

‘ what you fear most is what you most must do’

Good luck, and make the effort to search out good information.

thanks.