On Improving Your Diet, Your Emotions, and Your Health
John L. Waters
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November 14, 2000
Copyright 2000 by John L. Waters.
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It's not easy to feel good about yourself when you're
experiencing chronic physical pains in your body and
you're often too weak to walk a mile without eating
half a pound of candy along the way. And even if
other people have jobs and respect, you feel less
fortunate since you've not held a job in ten years.
Despite all the negativity in your life, you get a
special pleasure out of eating the foods you enjoy so
much, even if they're not really good for your health.
You still drink ten cups of coffee a day. You still
eat chocolate bars by the dozen each week. Certain
other delicious foods, like Vienna Sausages, you still
often crave.
As a ten year old boy you would get a sore throat and
the pain would make it hard for you to swallow. For
two days the disease would focus on your throat and
then move up to your nose. For days you'd be too weak
to play or go to school. For weeks after the cold was
over you'd still waken in the morning and cough for
half an hour.
Your throat was an open door for germs. Ten bouts
like this a year was common for you, especially in the
Fall and in the Winter. At home and at school you
often felt weak and vulnerable. Indeed you truly were.
You drank gallons of Dad's Root Beer a week. You took
chocolate kisses to school and gave them to other
children. Your sweet tooth gave you cavities and in
eighth grade your dentist scolded you fiercely for
being so careless! But you had such a craving for
candy! And your personal will wasn't strong enough to
save your body from the ravages of this desire. To
improve your diet and your health, you needed a higher
will.
When you were frustrated you lost control and threw a
violent fit. This weakness of a four-year-old
persisted into your adulthood. Other signs of
immaturity in your early childhood persisted as well.
Your brain just didn't develop in the way people
expected it to. This led to disappointments.
Despite all the disappointment, you still could reward
yourself with the delectable foods you craved. These
weren't the best foods for your body, your brain, and
your mind but your personal will wasn't strong enough
to enable you to change. You needed the higher power.
You were the victim of an inborn genetic sensitivity,
which made you different from other people. This
sensitivity worsened your mental and physical health.
And other chronic problems added insult to injury. by
the age of thirty-eight you were in so much physical
and mental pain you often thought of committing
suicide.
You were raised in a culture in which a person is
expected to focus on the external world and pay
special attention to outward appearances. You worked
hard in college and got high grades. Your diet was
better and you felt better. You felt quite secure
during your college years.
But you never impressed people as a good speaker, a
good persuader, and a good communicator. Your focus
was on written work, not on oral work, and you didn't
learn how to set goals for yourself. You didn't make
elaborate plans. Instead, you were rather impulsive.
School imposed a structure on your life. This helped
you feel more secure.
For example on a Saturday in 1961, when you were
twenty-one, first you would work on your homework.
Then you would call up a friend. Then you would go
somewhere in the car. In the evening you would go to
a dance. On Sunday there was Church, your friend's
birthday party, more homework, more telephoning, and
mowing the lawn and other chores. Your inner person
was never explored. Your life was quite typically
American.
People in your society had the idea that a young man
must be very physically active, sports-oriented, and
manly. Your chronic physical weakness made it
impossible for you to keep up the fast pace with other
young men. You were very poor in social interaction.
Your major focus became light hand work. As you grew
older this became more true. You learned to focus on
drawing, making music, and writing.
At about the age of thirty-nine you felt especially
inspired, and your personal energy increased
dramatically. You became a strict vegetarian and gave
up your old food cravings. You boldly visited in
unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people and this
rather amazed you.
You became much less focused on writing. You felt
invigorated and rejuvenated as you had felt as a young
boy, like the whole world was your oyster. You also
walked around mostly naked, wearing only shoes and
shorts. This shocked some people in town. But
exposing your skin to the elements was good for your
health.
To be converted to the healthier way of living, you
gave yourself up to a higher will and a higher power.
You sensed this power in your body and it gave you
particular sensations in your eyes, your ears, and in
other body parts. You lost all your former cravings
and your health improved greatly. And indeed, you
felt immensely blessed. You wanted to share your good
fortune with other people!
Your special talent was invigorated by this treatment
so as the treatment worked the talent emerged. Your
special talent is what connects and integrates the
unconscious mind with the conscious mind and the
reasoning intellect. So what you feel, dream, intuit,
and think is all inter-connected. There's a lot of
communication going on between the different parts of
your psyche.
You're not just a writer. And while you're awake,
you're not just awake. At a given moment your
over-all brain activity is more general, more
diffused. And it's hard for people to understand this
and relate to your eccentricity. Their brain activity
is quite different from yours.
With better health and vigor a person's brain
activity is enhanced, so you are more capable now than
ever before. Sometimes this baffles people. And
certainly people don't think of you as a doctor,
because you don't talk like a doctor, act like a
doctor, or have a doctor's degree.
In fact, because this special treatment has worked so
well, you've become a phenomenal person. This makes
you very difficult for people to correctly understand.
Your art, your music and your writing helps.
11:45PM Tuesday, November 14, 2000
John L. Waters
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