Gabriel Cousens

Okay.

[Special prayer] 

In that prayer is about the merging of the heavens and the earth. We understand that’s about how do we bring the spirits of our awareness, how do we ensure spiritual wellness, which is easy to talk about into the physical plain, which is a little bit more of a challenge. So how is it that we sanctify all of life? How is it that we sanctify all of creation through spiritual wellness? How do we sanctify the food as a love note from God? This prayer sets the intention to indeed do that. It’s the epitome of the attitude of what I call, “Holistic Wellness”. I actually have a school called The Cousens School of Holistic Wellness. Its essence is bringing the spiritual into our everyday walk. Native Americans talk about as walking the great red way. That’s what that prayer’s activated.

In my world and what we do here, no matter what people come from and we do a lot of work with spiritual wellness and healing diabetes naturally but our analysis isn’t about blood sugar. That takes care of itself when you’re doing the right thing.

From the Ayurvedic point of view, diabetes type 2 is a crime against wisdom where we’ve lost contact with the natural laws and the cosmic laws. Our work is around spiritual wellness, is to help people come back in touch with that.

We have a very high success rate, without a doubt. It’s the highest in the world where 61% of the people who come in going on instant dependent heal of their diabetes in 3 weeks.

Gabriel Cousens

That’s exactly right and all healing becomes easier through spiritual wellness. So, people may come and say, “I want to heal my diabetes” and at end, as they go through the process, they’re comment consistently is, “Oh, yes. My diabetes is healed. It’s supposed to incurable and it’s healed in 3 weeks. Okay, that’s great but what’s really great for me is you’ve helped me reconnect to my soul.” That’s really the essence of the work we do here at the Tree of Life Center in U.S. Is helping people reconnect with their soul through spiritual wellness.

They had connection and guides in a way in what I call in Ayurveda Crimes Against Wisdom. That’s the key.  So, people are exposed to daily meditations, sunrise, sunset, new moon, any peace, which we call our sweat lodges in reconnecting to the rhythm of life, the own holy rhythm in actually, the earth and itself.

Gabriel Cousens

We call the Essene Sevenfold Peace. What is it? Physically, having a body that really works where the energy flows and your mind is actually working. What we see today is, believe it or not, there’s over 100 million people on some sort of drug, whether it’s legal or illegal that is ultimately clouding their minds. So having a clear mind is the second principle.

Then, you have what we call, “Right relationship with your family”, that sacred relationship but also interfacing with your family of origin and then you have a way of interfacing with the community. There’s much chaos in the world today and the question is how do you interface with it in a way that’s not drawn into it?

Then, we have what we call, “OH MITAKUYE OYASIN”, all my relatives. So we’re talking about the rock people which is the soul of the living planet earth, the soul of the sun, soul of the stars. All of those pieces. And then, there’s the plant world. Connecting to the energy of that, connecting to the energy of the animal world, and also, the energy of the human world is community in all cultures is important for spiritual wellness. From all cultures, we’re talking also about the ecology and how do you live and have balance with the ecology and all ultimately, how do you live and have balance with the divine.

Take any of those away and the whole thing comes out of balance.

We’re in a tantric relationship with all of creation and all our interactions are about upgrading the spiritual awareness, the life force, and the spirit in all that’s going on.

So we’re merging with it and since we’re upgrading it, all we’re doing is consciousness.

The Native Americans call it Walking the Great Red Way.

Gabriel Cousens

It’s something that really begins to happen naturally when your focus is on the Sevenfold Peace because it starts with practice. “Okay, I’m going to eat well” and we eat to become a superconductor of the divine. That changes your conscious. “Oh no, I’m also going to meditate so I create a quiet mind which helps me connect.”

Now, I’m focusing on bringing those two pieces in the sacred relationships to ensure spiritual wellness. So relationship becomes a way of enhancing the sacredness of all life. Basically, the tantric relationship, where your heart is opening including the space for the other person and everyone is being elevated spirituality through that relationship.

So, these are basic ways of life that naturally enhancing. I find that the meditation and spiritual wellness is for many people since people’s lives are so noisy that they need a quiet space to start to reconnect. That’s what we try to do here in The Tree of Life is actually create a quiet space and create vitamin, and connecting with nature so that they start to reconnect with who they are.

When that connection happens, then the ball of consciousness begins to expand and it really gets rolling resulting spiritual wellness. It happens naturally and spontaneously. Rather than think, “Oh, I got to reconnect” No, no. We’re just a take away of life and that way of life will then help you more reconnect.

Gabriel Cousens

You just described our spiritual fast. That’s exactly what we do and that’s exactly the kind of result. You get reconnected to your soul in the process of spiritual wellness. You get reconnected to your holy rhythm and holy rhythm of the living planet. Do as exactly what you described and you just did it on your own.

We have a setting to do exactly that and spiritual fasting is a very big part of our work. We have 4 spiritual fast here a year.  It’s part of our diabetes program as well and it really does work exactly the way you’re talking about it.

Gabriel Cousens

Its fun to see because a lot of people come because they know this is a little different. It’s a little bit out of my box and let’s see. They blossom through spiritual wellness because they start to reconnect. It’s not like we’re doing it for them. Yes, obviously, we have meditation, we have all the things you’re talking about, we have spiritual discussion, they’re eating life food and life food himself begins to clear their mind and their consciousness. Suddenly, they become superconductors, the divine and this whole transition that they worry about is like, “Wow. That’s easy” because they’re having such a positive experience due to spiritual wellness.

It happens to a lot of people that way and it’s really beautiful to see the simplicity. The elegant simplicity is what I enjoy the most during the process of spiritual wellness.

So people light up and then, there’s a little catch to it. As you say, it lasted for a month or two. So, what I’ve observed in the big picture is people need to do start with the spiritual fast twice a year so they get that reinforcement.

Reinforcement is part of the whole process. That’s a way of understanding it. Until they’re strong enough, they can get a little bit sucked back into the world. When you repeated enough times and you’re able to hold your awareness and not be sucked into crimes against wisdom and against yourself. So that’s what happens. They love spiritual wellness.

I have lot of people coming back for spiritual wellness. Not everybody’s ready for this. When I speak about diabetes, which is only one little thing that we do, maybe that’s 5% of the population who are willing to actually throw themselves naturally rather than eat whatever they want, take some insulin. Of course, you can never cure anything that way. So, a lot of people just come because they know they want transition in the big picture. That’s the key and they’re ready for it. They don’t know what is but they’re ready for it. That’s the key to spiritual wellness that makes it work.

There has to be a part of you who wants to play. So, we do get people. I’m not talking about people who are into live foods. I’m just talking about 50% of people who come are meat eaters. They’re [endensing] the world. It’s like, “This is not working. I am not feeling good. What’s the point of doing all this?” They come here and they reconnect with their soul, reconnect to their authentic self, reconnect to their holy rhythm, and reconnect to the larger rhythm living planet and suddenly, they’re turned on.

So, it isn’t a lot of work to encourage people to keep going in that direction. That’s how it works.

Gabriel Cousens

One of the key things is one step at a time. Now, it isn’t just one step. We actually discuss this with people on either the 7 day fast program or the 21 day program.

Gabriel Cousens

Where are we go with it is that what I see that in 80% life food plant-source only diet does really work as very optimal levels of results once people have gotten through the first steps of it. We’re here, they’re going to be 100% life food for a period of time like 3 weeks and then, they can begin to modify and do that. So, that makes a big difference.

Incorporate the lifestyle. Most people aren’t meditating very often. So, they can do meditating once or twice a day and their lifestyle changes. People have to choose in something they will succeed with. And then, for 1 step, you go two steps, and 3 steps, and it continues.

There’s a story of the man with the candle and somebody sees him walking. It’s a dark night “Where are you going?” “I’m going to the mountain.” “You can’t see the mountain from here.” “Of course I can’t see the mountain from here. I can see one step at a time.” And that’s the point.

We have incredible potential. We can even beyond our dreams.

Last year, we had a lady. She’s 92 years old, comes in a wheelchair, and has 13 different medications. She has high blood pressure and diabetes. You’re not going to have any limitations. At 3 weeks, her diabetes is cured. She’s stopped all 13 medications. She no longer has high blood pressure, and she’s walking out of her wheelchair.

I saw a year later and she’s still walking around happy. All we need to do is connect her to a way of life that works and she was ready to go, 92 years old. We may call these miracles. I don’t call the miracles. I just say,

Gabriel Cousens

The one thought I would say and starts with that prayer is how do we sanctify all of our life? How do we bring the divine into every moment through spiritual wellness? How do we bring the divine into sacred relationship? How do we bring the divine into even your food, doing your exercises? How do we bring the divine in every aspect of the walk to life? Just keeping that one thought mind really begins to take you to where you need to go in a very practical way in the very busy outer world.

My granddaughters live in New York City. I love New York. I have no problem I still keep the same thing on. It really doesn’t matter. And that’s my point, it isn’t just a word on special occasion. That’s a nice way to live. It’s nice not to be in the city. Okay, that’s good. However, I take it wherever I go. It doesn’t really matter anymore. But wherever that happens to be, that presence, that sanctification of all life including my own, is the prime way of walking the walk.

Gabriel Cousens

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