The Posture

The ideal posture is known as the "Egyptian Posture”. Sit very straight on a chair, with your arms on the armrests and your hands open, palms upwards or downwards, whichever is more comfortable. Your feet should be flat on the floor. Don’t cross either your arms or your legs, which should not come into contact with any other part of your body.

Breathing is important; it helps introspection and is the link that enables you to discover your personal images. To strengthen the images, try to relax(that is your aim). Breathe regularly, breathing in through your nostrils and out through your mouth. Exhalation should be longer and slower than inhalation, which is normal, easy and effortless, i.e. without exaggeration.

When you feel comfortable and ready to begin, breathe out three times, beginning with an exhalation, i.e. you breathe out 3 times and in twice.

Then you can begin. During the exercise, breathe normally: all your attention will be focused on the image and your breathing will come naturally.

When you have completed the exercise, breathe out once before opening your eyes.

Visualisations of Healing

Visualising, working on images, is a very simple process. It involves finding, discovering and creating a mental form or image. These imagined, but nevertheless real, forms have all the characteristics of the incidents, objects or situations that you encounter in everyday life. The difference is that, unlike the objects perceived while you are awake, they have no volume or mass.

However, they have their own energy.

Think of these images as "brainchildren”: you create them so that they can act as healing agents on your behalf, and so that their energy stimulates the healing process.

They are as real as your emotions, and charged with as much meaning as your nocturnal dreams. Emotion is the life force (what Bergsen called the “elan vital”) that is expressed in inner feelings (happiness, satisfaction, sadness) and external actions (a spontaneous reaction of surprise, anger, impatience).

Emotion is closely allied to images: all emotion can manifest itself in the form of images. Your images. No two people in the world create exactly the same images.

An image is therefore the mental form of a feeling, but it also has a physical form: sensation. When you are angry, for example, you often feel a sort of constriction in the area of the rib cage. Joy, on the other hand, spreads a sensation of lightness throughout the body.

In the visualisation of healing, images are  used to modify emotions and sensations, in order to create or transform an experience.

You will quickly realise that images are in fact a way of achieving physical and mental health.

How to prepare the "Kollath breakafast”

Ingredients per person: 30 to 40 grammes fresh wholewheat flour (the

Kollath breakfast makes the wheat digestible without cooking), 3 to 5 spoonfuls water, 1 to 2 spoonfuls fresh lemon juice, 20 grammes dried fruit, 200 grammes freshly grated apples, or any other (local or seasonal) ripe fruits; 1 spoonful almonds or crushed nuts to sprinkle over the top.

THE EVENING BEFORE: pour the wheat flour (an electric coffee grinder converts the wheat into wholewheat flour in a few seconds) into a bowl and add 3 to 5 spoonfuls of mineral water (NEVER use milk).

Stir and leave at room temperature until the next morning. During the night, the cereals swell and the fermentation process – which gives the “Kollath breakfast” its dietetic value and digestibility – takes place.

Cut the dried fruit (figs, raisins or dates) into small pieces and leave to soak in another container.

THE NEXT MORNING

Mix the contents of the 2 containers using the water in which the dried fruit has been soaked and add the fresh lemon juice. Add the freshly grated apple (or pear) or crushed seasonal fruits (strawberries, cherries, plums, peaches, etc). Sprinkle the mixture with the almonds or crushed nuts.

To vary the recipe, add almond paste or a spoonful of honey to taste. Those with a good appetite can eat some wholemeal bread and low-fat, soft white cheese, for example, AFTER the “Kollath breakfast”. 

Try it religiously for a few weeks and see the results for yourself!

The "KOLLATH" Breakfast

Eating this breakfast on a regular basis has a number of beneficial effects:

·                                                       You feel full for at least 4 hours. You don’t feel hungry during the morning, and you don’t overload your stomach;

·                                                       It stablises the weight: weight-watchers will not feel hungry before lunch and will therefore be able to eat less. By contrast, those who want to put on weight will find it improves their digestive system and helps them to put on weight. This may sound paradoxical, but it is perfectly logical;

·                                                       It eliminates constipation which poisons the system;

·                                                       Because this breakfast cleanses the system, the symptoms of tiredness and exhaustion, which are an indication of an accumulation of toxins rather than real tiredness, disappear;

·                                                       It increases physical and intellectual efficiency;

·                                                       An improved biological balance gives a general sense of wellbeing;

·                                                       It improves the powers of concentration because the digestive system is not overloded (digestion uses 70% of our available nervous energy);

·                                                       It improves tolerance of stress;

·                                                       It improves the composition of the blood: the improved irrigation of the tissues eliminates eczema, boils and scurf and gives a fresh, clear complexion;

·                                                       Hair becomes supple and shiny. Eating this breakfast regularly even prevents greying and enables the hair to recover its original colour;

·                                                       Nails become shiny and less brittle;

·                                                       It improves dental health and loose teeth become firmly rooted in their sockets;

·                                                       It strengthens bones, which become less likely to fracture and mend more rapidly in the event of an accident.

Energetic Exercise

This exercise, which should be done every day, has a number of benefits for  daily hygiene and health.

·                                                       Lie flat on your back, with your arms beside your body. Take a complete yogic breath and focus your attention on your "solar pexus”;

·                                                       Raise your head and press your chin hard against your sternum (breastbone);

·                                                       Then raise your shoulders and look at your feet;

·                                                       Raise your heels a few centimetres off the ground, bending your knees slightly and leaving your arms by your sides.

·                                                       Hold the air in your lungs;

This is performed in a single synchronised movement.

In this position, your "solar plexus” will start to vibrate.

·                                                       Maintain the posture for as long as possible, without tiring yourself. Breathe out slowly, releasing the air through your mouth. Relax.

·                                                       Continue for 15 minutes, relaxing after each exercise.

Beneficial effects: This exercise strengthens the abdominal muscles, massages the intestines (toning the liver, pancreas, bladder and kidneys, and activating intestinal peristalsis), and promotes the irrigation of the spinal cord. This has the effect of eliminating any excess fat on the stomach and thighs and giving you a slimmer figure.

Energy and Food

To maximise the energy obtained from food:

·                                                       Chew your food until it is reduced to a creamy consistency in your mouth and you have swallowed it without realising.

·                                                       Water fulfils two functions: if it is drunk mouthful by mouthful and rolled beneath the tongue, it releases all its energy into the mouth where it is absorbed by the mucous membranes; the liquid hydrates the entire body.

·                                                         Do not eat you fill at night or you will take a day off the length of your life.

·                                                       Do not sleep without protecting your breath: try to sleep with your mouth closed.

By applying these rules of hygiene and secrets of longevity, you will ensure that you enjoy good health and excellent vitality.

After only a few weeks of patient and persevering exercise, without trying to achieve anything other than a calm and peaceful regularity, you will, without fail, begin to feel the first effects. Your entire body will be calm and relaxed, your nerves will be purified, your voice will have a new – gentle and beautifully resonant – quality, your eyes will be clear and bright, you will have a fresh complexion, greater lung capacity, etc.

Fasting, a source of power

All traditions advocate fasting as a form of purification and meditation. It is the simplest, most natural and oldest known way of renewing old reserves of energy, burning waste and stimulating the unsupected power of new energy. The important thing is to fast intelligently and in moderation.

Here are a few rules for a one-day fast:

·                                                       Eat a very light supper before going to bed the night before: broth or soup, salad, fruit (an apple);

·                                                         Do not eat from when you wake up the next morning until the same time on the day after your fast;

·                                                         Drink lots of hot or cold water. Don’t drink stimulants such as tea of coffee. If you feel weak, drink unsweetened thyme and sage teas;

·                                                         Take at least one long walk, in the countryside if possible;

·                                                         Read texts that stimulate inner reflection: sacred texts, scholars’ memoirs, philosophy or poetry;

·                                                         Avoid all major effort, noise and agitation;

·                                                         Break your fast with ordinary or herbal tea, a yoghurt, a piece of fruit, a small piece of bread and butter. No more. Eat more later, but avoid sauces, cream, alcohol and heavy meals.

Perform this type of fast on a regular basis (ideally once every 10 days). You can then follow the same programme for a two- or three-day fast. In this way, your body will be cleansed of its toxins and your mind of its pollution. It is like drinking at the Fountain of Youth!