It is advisable to prepare yourself for fasting by a short cleansing, diet. For 2 or 3 days, eat nothing but raw fruits and vegetables – one meal a day of any available fruits, the other of fresh vegetable salad.

Fasting usually begins with an effective bowel cleansing with the help of purgatives, such as Glauber’s salts or castor oil. Dr. Buchinger uses an ounce and a half of Glauber’s salts in one and a quarter pints of warm water on the morning of the first day of fasting. Since the Glauber’s salt drink is not very tasty, it is usually followed by a glass of fruit juice. Glauber’s salts will cause repeated and powerful evacuations and cleanse your bowels thoroughly. Some European clinics use castor oil for the same purpose. On the first day of fasting, one or two hours before an enema, 2 tbsp. of pure castor oil is taken in a glass of water to which the juice of half a lemon has been added. Of course, you can begin your fasting without a purgative, just by taking a double enema. First take 1 pint of plain water and let it out. Then repeat with a full quart of water, into which chamomile tea or a few drops of lemon juice have been added.

The next day, and each following day of the fast, you follow this program:

Upon arising: Enema.

After enema: Dry brush massage, followed by hot and cold shower.

9:00 A.M.: Cup of herb tea – warm, not hot. Health food stores carry a large assortment of herb teas.

11:00 A.M.: A glass of freshly-pressed fruit juice diluted 50-50 with water.

11:00 A.M. to

1:00 P.M. Walk or mild exercise, or sunbathing, if the weather permits. Various therapeutic baths or other treatments can be given at this time.

1:00 P.M.: A glass of freshly made vegetable juice or a cup of vegetable broth.

1:30 to

4:00 P.M.: Rest in bed.

4:00 P.M.: Cup of herb tea.

4:15 to

7:00 P.M.: Walk, therapeutic baths, exercises and other treatments.

7:00 P.M.:     Glass of diluted vegetable or fruit juices.

9:00 P.M.:     Cup of vegetable broth.

Drink plain lukewarm water, or mineral water, when thirsty. The total juice and broth volume during the day should be between 1 1/2 pints and 1 1/2  quarts. Never dilute fresh juices with vegetable broth, only with pure water. The total liquid intake should be approximately 6 to 8 glasses – but don’t hesitate to drink more, if thirsty.

I suggest that a therapeutic fast be supervised by a doctor or by someone who is well initiated in it. Under expert supervision, such a fast could be undertaken at home up to 30 days, if necessary. Without expert supervision I would not advise fasting longer than one week to 10 days at a time. After a few weeks on an Optimum health-building diet your fasting program may be repeated.

When you fast, you should be well informed on all the details and phases of fasting, and thoroughly convinced of its safety and superior healing potential.

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We discovered that people’s sexual behavior – both men’s and women’s – could be described in terms of three distinct traits. We call them life satisfaction, sensuality, and eroticism.

To see how much life satisfaction a person had, we asked such questions as: Are you happy or unhappy about your sex life? About your life in general? Your state of being single or married? The way your body looks? How easy is it for you to talk to your partner about sex? How good are you as a lover? How often do you have intercourse?

We then discovered that if you answer that you are happy about your life in general, you are most likely to answer that you are happy with your sex life, your marital status, and the way your body looks. You are also more likely to be at ease with sex talk, be proud of your lovemaking, and say that you have intercourse frequently. You are essentially a happy, satisfied person. You therefore have a high life satisfaction trait.

If you say you are unhappy with life in general, then all of your answers to these questions will likely be negative. Unhappy and unsatisfied, you have a low life satisfaction trait.

To measure the trait called sensuality, we asked questions such as, Are you aroused or repulsed by kissing? Hands on breasts? Mouth to breasts? Hugging? Tongue kissing? Genital touching?

Again, people who are aroused by one of these activities are likely to be aroused by the rest. They like cuddling, fondling, nestling. Many people were not aroused by such sensual behavior, which we usually call foreplay. They scored low on sensuality.

The eroticism trait comes from answers to such questions as, Are you aroused by pornography? By erotic fantasy? By mouth to genital contact? By anal sex? Do you have a strong sex drive? Is sex important to you? Do you frequently masturbate?

If you answer yes to such questions, you have a high degree of the erotic trait; answer no and you have low eroticism.

Here’s an important point: You may score high on one trait, low on the other two; or high on two, low on the third, and so on. In fact, eight different combinations of the three traits are possible; hence, the eight sexual styles.

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