Excerpt from "Live Better Longer" by Joseph Dispenza.

MY OWN EXPERIENCE

When I met Dr. Hazel Parcells I was a reasonably healthy fifty-year-old man who watched what I ate, exercised vigorously three times a week, and in general took care of myself. I used food supplements off and on. I had given up smoking cigarettes a few years before (it had been very difficult, and I lapsed back a few times). Every couple of months, to "tune up," I went to an acupuncturist for a treatment. I rarely suffered any illness more than an annoying cold, and when one came, it didn't last long. I had been hospitalized only once in my life, when I was nine, to have my tonsils out. Still, I was twenty-five pounds overweight-something I just couldn't shake all my adult life (I had been an overweight child). My blood pressure hovered in the "borderline-high" area. I used antacid mints a few times a week and a stronger antacid liquid if my stomach got really irritated. I drank a lot of coffee, took aspirins to calm down, and used sleeping pills to get to sleep at night. My energy level was just so-so; if I could fit in an afternoon nap, I would.

And something else: in the past two years I noticed that my skin had begun to turn progressively darker. In short, I was one of the "half-healthy."

Cleaning House

Dr. Parcells put me on a detoxification and rejuvenation program that lasted eight days, and amazing things began to happen. First, my skin cleared up, from a dark brown to a healthy glowing pink-at the end of the eight days my skin actually looked like the skin of a baby. My weight became manageable: I lost twelve pounds doing the weeklong program. I gained back four pounds in the week after I was finished with the program, stabilized for a month, then began to lose an average of two pounds a month after that until I reached my proper weight.

My energy soared. My blood pressure measured normal. I found I could work for several hours at a stretch without wanting to take a nap and get through the day and night with no help from drugs of any kind-including those I had considered rather harmless ones like caffeine, indigestion candies, laxatives, and aspirins.

I also had a new outlook on life. I felt revived, eager for challenges, ready to start off in new directions. I felt that whole worlds of possibilities were waiting for me--doors that had been closed were swung wide open. A kind of expansion of spirit came over me.

What I had experienced was not only a physical cleansing, but also a deep emotional, psychological, and spiritual cleansing.

I had never felt better in my life. The cleansing program Dr. Parcells recommended for me literally "cleaned house," as she Said, and allowed my body to take over the work of healing itself-naturally, easily, and effectively.

In my case, the liver was congested and clogged with poisons, to the point where it wasn't able to do its best work of processing and purifying. The blocked-up liver had caused a slowdown of my ability to burn food, especially fat, thus keeping me overweight. Its decreased function also had caused accumulations of unassimilated foods, food supplements, and medicines to putrefy in me, further bogging down the liver's activity; the result was that a variety of aches and pains were surfacing from a number of places, my sleep was being hindered, and my skin had darkened to a complex-ion that looked turbid, congested, and unhealthy.

"If you take your foot off the brake, your car will go faster," Dr. Parcells said to me when we went over the results of my eight-day adventure. It was a lesson I learned by doing, and the outcome was more positive than I could have imagined.

DETOXIFICATION AND

REJUVENATION AT THE CELL LEVEL

Dr. Parcells developed her cleansing program in the 1950s and 1960s. She recommended it to people who came to her sincerely wanting to turn their health around. It was always the first step for all her health-building plans.

The Parcells Detoxification and Rejuvenation Program work sat the cell level. It is not a simple stomach evacuation or bowel cleanse. It is not a mere rest-from-food regime for the internal organs. It actually loosens and removes toxic wastes that have been stored in the body for years.

This program works on many levels to clean the whole person. Its impact on the physical level is the most obvious and the most dramatic, of course, but it also clears blockages on the emotional level (or the emotional body, as some are calling it) and affects many other aspects of a person's life, including one's psychological and spiritual sides. If anger and resentment have been stored in the body for many years, they are given the opportunity of leaving at this time. If some self-destructive psychological patterns have gotten stuck in the mind and have spilled over into the body, they can dissolve during this program.