PART II
Transitional Sleep Therapy

11. NATURAL THERAPY

We have seen how suggestions made directly to the subcon­scious mind can produce important personality changes. Thera­peutic benefits accruing from suggestions have been no less spectacular. Many books have been written of the successful treatment of illness through suggestive therapy alone. Dr. Alexander Cannon in Great Britain and Dr. Wolberg in the United States have published works on hypnotherapy. Raphael Rhodes, in his best seller Therapy Through Hypnosis, describes how hypnotism has cured a variety of psychosomatically induced ills such as insomnia, nightmare, obesity, depression, sadism, menstrual pain, childbirth pain, migraine headache, etc. In a recent publication, Volney G. Mathison, therapist and inventor of the electropsychometer, lists many phenomenal cures, one of a terminal cancer patient, through the use of therapy sleep tapes. In 1951, Newsweek reported that the Kennedy Veterans Hos­pital, in Memphis, Tennessee, had made positive rehabilitation progress through sleep conditioning. Dr. Schmidhofer told the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Cincinnati of suc­cess in sleep therapy by changing attitudes and instilling con­fidence in war veterans who were mentally ill.

Transitional sleep may prove to be the answer to our ever-in­creasing crime problem, as well as juvenile delinquency and moral degeneration. On August 1, 1958, John Locke, the public defender of Tulare County, California, addressed the 10th An­nual Institute for Parole and the institutional staff at the Uni­versity of California on the subject of "Sleep Therapy in the Field of Penology." Mr. Locke told the group at Berkeley that he was confident that within a few years the power of sleep conditioning would completely revolutionize the treatment of crime. Mr. Locke has further stated, in a recent article, "Prescription for Life":

"Sleep therapy will revolutionize rehabilitation techniques. It is effective for adults and juveniles. The treatment for alcohol­ism, narcotic addiction, illness, mental and physical, malcontent-ment will supplement educational techniques in the years to come."

Thoughtless remarks may often have lethal effects. Today, an increasing number of surgeons are discouraging conversation in the presence of anesthetized patients, bearing in mind the pro­found effects suggestions may have at certain levels of the un­conscious. Medical men have learned that thoughtless remarks do, at times, register on the unconscious mind of patients under­going surgery and may cause untold damage later. Negative sug­gestions received while one is below the threshold of conscious­ness are accepted as true, so silence should be observed in the presence of victims of shock or accident, or during anesthesia.

Silence is recommended, since the general tone of many remarks made at such times tends to be negative and depressing. To say, for instance, "He will never recover from this" in the presence of a person under anesthesia or in deep shock might well contribute to his prolonged illness or even death. Negative remarks heard at certain levels of subconscious awareness are far more powerful than the average person suspects.

When the potency of suggestive therapy is fully appreciated, it may become standard practice to give suggestions of a positive nature to all anesthetized patients. Such suggestions would stress optimism and self-confidence and a speedy recovery. Much post­operative anxiety and discomfort can be relieved by positive concepts given to the patient while he is under anesthesia or deep sedation.

SUGGESTIVE THERAPY MISDIRECTED

Are there dangers involved in using transitional-sleep therapy? Not from the use of the tapes listed herein, certainly, for all have undergone extensive tests before being released. However, the transitional-sleep state, like hypnosis, is recognized as a powerful agent, and as such it holds certain dangers if and when it is misapplied or its forces misdirected.

In the earlier manuals devoted to education, a thirty-minute conditioning technique was included, word for word, for home recording. This was done for student use and the development of educational projects demanding experimentation. In this book, we discuss more serious applications of this powerful medium, and are in complete agreement with medical advice that the in­clusion of conditioning techniques for home recordings might encourage the uninformed to experiment in areas that could be dangerous. Since conditioning permits one to communicate di­rectly and control his inner subconscious mind (the part of the mind that governs emotions, habits, and pain) we must not minimize the importance of suggestions received while in the transitional-sleep state.

The presence of pain in the body is a warning, and its re­moval through transitional-sleep suggestions or any other means not recommended by a physician could prove dangerous. Pain and other physical symptoms are effects of causes gone unde­tected. It has been previously explained how approximately 90 per cent of these original causes can be directly traced to per­sonality flaws, negative attitudes, and wrong habits of thought. Transitional-sleep tapes are not designed to relieve symptoms and erase effects. It is a thousand times more desirable to relieve the tension causing migraine or ulcer than to remove the pain and allow the cause to go unchecked. Dangers exist, and we sug­gest that unless a person is thoroughly skilled in the field he should not experiment with self-recorded therapy tapes. Auto­mobiles are wonderful conveyances, but when mishandled they can become killers. Electricity, the docile slave, will maim and kill when ignorantly handled. A loaded revolver in mature hands may be safe enough, but not in the hands of a three-year-old. These forces are not dangerous in themselves; they become so only when misunderstood, misapplied, or misdirected. Likewise with transitional-sleep therapy.

TRANSITIONAL SLEEP AND CONVALESCENCE

Fear, boredom, and worry retard convalescence. All are fac­tors hard to control. Recovery from illness or surgery can be greatly accelerated when a high level of optimism is maintained, and the patient kept free from anxiety and its demoralizing effects.

Transitional-sleep tapes are invaluable during convalescence. We recall one case in which suggestive therapy via sleep tapes was employed that should be of particular interest to dentists and dental surgeons. When Mrs. D. was faced with dental sur­gery and the problem of adjusting to a new denture she was naturally apprehensive. A transitional-sleep tape was made with suggestions to the effect that healing would be very rapid-no swelling and a minimum of bleeding, practically no discom­fort, and no problem of adjusting to the denture. Furthermore, it was stressed that her new teeth were attractive and an asset to her appearance. Mrs. D. underwent dental surgery at ten o'clock, one morning. She returned home at noon and spent most of the afternoon listening to her sleep tape. There was no swelling, very little bleeding, and within three days she was eating steak and popcorn without discomfort, much to the con­sternation of neighbors and friends. Mrs. D. listened to the tape periodically for about two weeks (checking with her dentist about the healing of the gums), and at no time during that period did she have a moment's discomfort from either surgery or denture, nor has she had any discomfort since.

The standard transitional-sleep health tapes have built-in features for reorganizing the thought pattern. Tested suggestions are incorporated to instill optimism and fortify the listener with new courage and strength.

GROUP THERAPY VIA TRANSITIONAL SLEEP

The question often arises whether transitional sleep is a prac­tical medium for group therapy. This depends upon the group, its interests, and whether each has been conditioned. We have found that conditioning is best achieved individually or in small groups of six or less. Since noise breaks rapport with the recorded message and hinders relaxation, large groups have been found to be too distracting to get the best results. How­ever, one is far less sensitive to extraneous noises, and equal benefits may be expected from larger groups when all have been previously conditioned. We have conducted transitional-sleep classes made up of twenty conditioned students with extraor­dinary results. (Tension, Weight and Smoking Control Re­search, Miami, Fla., 1957.) After conditioning has been accom­plished with small groups, larger classes of ten, twenty, or even more may be formed for group-therapy sessions. The standard tension-control and health tapes contain excellent material for either individual or group sessions.

THE KEY TO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

Tension is civilization's No. 1 enemy. The toll it takes is ap­palling. So completely overwhelming are the accumulated effects of tension that medical authorities attribute upward of 90 per cent of all illness to tension in one form or another. Migraine, neuroses, stomach disorders, insomnia, allergies, arthritis, sinus problems, high blood pressure, and heart disease are only a few of the tension-induced conditions that harass humanity.

Many books have been written about tension, its causes, and its effects. Just what is tension? In essence, tension is an ac­cumulation of "stress" that cannot be dispelled at will, or, in other words, the inability of the mind and body to relax simultaneously. Most mental and physical problems are the end result of this one inability—consciously to control tension by relaxing at will.

When our physical body and its vital organs are subject to continuous tension or stress, without the benefit of normal pe­riods of complete relaxation, malfunction must eventually occur at the body's weakest point. It may be the digestive tract, the bronchial area, or any other part of the body, but malfunction eventually must occur if tension persists long enough. A normal physical body operates perfectly and continues to do so until it is hindered in its functions by stress. Even then, when and if the stress is relieved, the body immediately begins to repair the damage. All too often when illness or weakness develops in some part of the anatomy, we fail to recognize the malfunction or pain as a logical effect of causes long in operation. As a result, we often treat the resulting pain (symptom removal) and the real cause is not discovered. Relieve the ulcer patient of tension, teach him how to relax his mind and body and so reduce the stress that produced the ulcers, and his problems are resolved promptly. Anyone with a tension problem—and the number is in the millions—recognizes that, were he able to relax (cleansing the mind of stress and tension at will), this ability would be more valuable to him than all of the tranquilizers and nerve pills on the market.

The causes of tension are endless; worry, fear, and anxiety produce tension and stress, and humanity has discovered mil­lions of things to worry about, to become anxious about, and to fear. Fortunately, to reduce tension, we do not have to eliminate these festering thorns, one by one; instead we go back again to "cause" and change the attitudes that admitted such concepts into the human personality in the first place.

EARLY SIGNS OF TENSION, OR STRESS

People who are tense do not all exhibit the same signs. Many tense people display tension in obvious ways—profuse sweating, cracking knuckles, fidgeting or biting the finger nails. Others may not give any outward signs of nervousness but, as they say, they are "tied in knots." Shortness of breath and irregular breath­ing are often signs of nervous tension. Frequently, neuromuscular hypertension affects the circulation and produces numbness and/or a chilling of the body surface. Heart palpitation may accompany such symptoms. Certain physical patterns that de­velop as a result of tension may vary widely among individuals. Some give vent to tension through tears and outbursts of temper; others overeat or drink to excess or chain smoke. Still others become so tense they develop indigestion or insomnia. Though tension may display itself in a thousand different ways, the effects can be traced back to one central source. And what is this source, this basic cause of so much misery? It is the attitude of fear. Fear comes in many forms, shapes, and sizes but it always adds up to one thing—a feeling of insecurity. Rarely is there any reason for such feelings, but then fear is not always a reasonable emotion.

Basically, our work with tension involves two phases: first, techniques for temporarily dispelling tension in order to achieve coordinated mental and physical relaxation; and second, tech­niques for removing the fear attitudes and replacing them with attitudes of well-being and confidence in order to bring about the permanent control of tension.

Suggestions for achieving both phases have been evolved, clinically tested, and recorded. There were few problems to solve, for tension yields quite readily to suggestions made during transitional sleep. In addition to the almost complete dispersal of nervous tension, those using tension recordings report many pleasant side effects. A Louisiana executive had used the tension recording plus the insomnia tape. Being already conditioned in transitional sleep he had little trouble controlling tension and was, to use his words, "soon sleeping like a baby." After playing the recordings for six weeks, other things began to occur. Three tumors began to shrink and, according to a later statement, he said the tumors ultimately disappeared completely. His vision improved to such an extent that he discarded his glasses. Another man reported that a long-existing stomach problem corrected itself after listening to the tension tape for two weeks.

Physiological changes like these are extremely fascinating, especially since they occur spontaneously, once the burden of stress and tension is removed by suggestions impressed upon the subconscious during transitional sleep. While such spontaneous phenomena cannot be anticipated or planned, it does indicate that the human mind and body, when permitted to operate harmoniously as a unit (without the shackles of stress and ten­sion), strive always toward perfection, and as a matter of course the body purges itself of disease when harmony is restored.

INSOMNIA

Insomnia is one of the most frustrating by-products of today's tension-ridden social structure. Frustration and stress may per­haps sharpen your tongue, sour your disposition, or cause you to overeat, but as long as you can sleep you rebuild the strength to cope with tomorrow's problems. Unfortunately, for the tense person, sleep becomes more and more elusive, and very often he comes face to face with insomnia.

Sleep, at any level, demands relaxation and a certain coordi­nation of mind, nerves, and muscles. When either physical ten­sion or "thoughts" persist, sleep eludes us. The ability to relax physically assists the mind to clear itself of conscious thoughts and hastens sleep. Likewise, those able to control their thoughts and permit their minds to become passive at will do not develop insomnia, because reduction of mental stress in turn promotes the necessary physical relaxation so essential to sleep. Is man losing this inherent ability to relax his mind and body? It is a frightening prospect, but today there are millions who are suf­fering from insomnia and must rely nightly upon drugs to induce sleep. This is a sad and dangerous situation. Not only are there serious repercussions from the effects of these drugs, but tension itself remains uncontrolled to harass mind and body further. While barbiturates and other drugs can induce temporary unconsciousness, they do nothing to promote natural relaxation and to relieve the causes of insomnia.

A human being requires periodic sleep to repair the damage generated by the consciousness and its activities. Man, like all other animals, is perfectly equipped to relax his mind and body and fall asleep. As children, we dropped off to sleep quickly, without effort. Surely we can regain this ability, the ability en­joyed in the past, the ability inherent within every living crea­ture. Man, with his trained consciousness and analytical mind, is a complex machine, but a machine that yields more grace­fully to the rhythm of balance and harmony than it does to the poisons of tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and opiates.
Transitional sleep, via recorded suggestions to the subcon­scious, easily controls insomnia by returning to man his Cod-given ability to relax. He is then able, with the rhythm of balance re-established, to drop quickly into undisturbed sleep and be forever freed from the bonds of sleeping potions.

TENSION, HEART PALPITATION, AND RESPIRATION

Those who are unable to sleep are quite aware that feelings of anxiety, an irregular pulse perhaps accompanied by shortness of breath, and/or rapid, shallow breathing are closely allied with insomnia. Medical science tells us that tension directly affects respiration, that shallow, irregular breathing reduces the normal flow of oxygen into the blood and is a major cause of heart palpitation. Restless people who have trouble sleeping complain that heart palpitation often contributes to their wakefulness. This condition can become a frustrating merry-go-round without ap­parent beginning or end. Tension, by placing stress on the re­spiratory organs, reduces the supply of oxygen to the blood, thus placing a burden on the heart. This results in erratic heart action and further increases tension, promoting insomnia and other symptoms of anxiety. Thus does tension affect the respiration, then the heart, adding further tension as it completes the cycle. So, around and around in circles, the effects of tension continue. Man feels himself helpless to slow down or otherwise correct his heartbeat by conscious effort, so he mistakenly relies upon drugs for solace. It is true that a fast heart action or tension-induced irregularity of the heart is beyond normal direct conscious con­trol, but it can be attained easily by everyone indirectly, by controlled respiration. The close relation of respiration to heart action has been the object of much research in recent years, both here and abroad. Dr. Alexander Cannon, one of England's great medical men and research scientists, has invented the manometer, an electronic instrument that registers this relation. It also registers the effects of suggestion (under deep hypnosis) upon respiration, tension, and heart palpitation.

HABITS

Habits are fixed patterns of belief and/or physical action. All such fixed patterns owe their automaticity of action to a peculiar reactive quality of the subconscious. In a sense, habits grow, or at least the repetitive action precipitated by habits crystallize into set patterns, and when "fixed" their action con­tinues with little effort thereafter. Should you follow a certain route to work for a few times, or retire at a certain hour, or follow any prescribed mental or physical routine for a period of time, the action soon becomes automatic, as we say, and tends to perpetuate itself. Not only do habits of long standing con­tinue without conscious effort, some become too powerful for the conscious will power to change or control. You see this action evidenced in the chain smoker and the compulsive drinker. It is this same automaticity of action that compels the obese to con­tinually crave fattening foods in quantities far beyond normal requirements, and the compulsive drinker his craving for alcohol. Thus do certain habits attain the status of "power units" and resist conscious interference with dictator-like viciousness.

Fixed good habits will guide one automatically down the more pleasant of life's highways, while the fixed habits that are harmful will just as unerringly steer us into the gutters, the side roads, and the dead-end streets of life. Since fixed habits operate within cycles of the subconscious, they do not depend upon the conscious mind for their strength. Inasmuch as these compulsive habits, or power units, are operating automatically, without conscious help, they become like other automatic func­tions of the body outside the sphere of conscious influence. Is it any wonder, then, that habits of long standing can rarely be broken by conscious effort alone? Indeed, it is SO rare for an alcoholic to cease drinking without assistance that we scarcely credit the possibility. The narcotic habit is virtually impossible to break without help. The compulsive craving for food and the smoking habit are certainly not impossible to curb by decision alone, but they are nevertheless strong enough to thwart our conscious desire to control them at least 95 per cent of the time. Tension is closely allied with certain fixed habits, such as overeating, chain smoking, nail biting and others, and when ten­sion is dispersed, the fixed habit becomes easier to control.

CONTROLLING THE SMOKING HABIT

Every habitual smoker who has tried to break the habit knows how difficult it is. Anger, frustration, fear, in fact, any emotion that generates tension increases the desire to smoke. You may "swear off smoking" and encounter no great difficulty abiding by your decision until confronted by an emotional prob­lem with its added burden of stress. The element of stress in a human being fluctuates; it is much like the water pressure that builds up behind a dam—the higher the tension, the greater the accumulated pressure. Transitional sleep lowers the tension threshold, and by so doing increases the available will power that enables one to cope with the smoking problem. Even though you may have tried unsuccessfully many times in the past to stop smoking, you will be amazed at the ease with which you can accomplish this. With tension reduced, our prerecorded tape on smoking permits one to stop smoking without stress or anx­iety.

To break the smoking habit, you must first make a definite decision that you intend to stop smoking and expect to succeed. Next, you must be thoroughly conditioned in transitional sleep. (See Chapter VI.) Then you must use the tension tape for one week to eliminate the need to smoke. After that, you must use the smoking-control tape for two weeks (once a day), and as needed thereafter, to destroy the taste and desire for tobacco. It is not necessary to be a slave to tobacco; neither is it neces­sary to use drugs or pills to break the habit. Do not anticipate any difficulty for there will be none.

WEIGHT CONTROL

Habits of "taste," like overindulgence in rich foods, are nor­mally very difficult to break, but they yield quickly, without causing anxiety, through transitional sleep. There are about forty million overweight Americans, and the number continues to increase in spite of medical warnings, insurance statistics, diets, pills, and drugs. To gather "girth" and keep it has become so permanent a part of the American way of life that industries have grown up to supply the demands of the obese. Weight-reducing salons, a comparatively new industry, now dot the country. Garment manufacturers design a sizable portion of their merchandise for the obese, and special sales campaigns are directed toward them. Even oversized and reinforced beds and chairs enjoy brisk sales from those resigned to permanent obesity. This is an alarming situation.

As the insulation of flabbiness grows, what happens to pride, self-confidence, and self-expression? Burdensome fat overworks every function of the physical body and, as all insurance com­panies can attest, is one of man's persistent killers. Any person carrying an excessive burden of flesh into advancing years cannot expect to live as long as he otherwise might. If we knew how many heart attacks are caused indirectly from obesity, the num­ber, in all likelihood, would be staggering.

Obesity is a creeping thing. Our appearance suffers first, then our health. The human body is a strong machine and strives mightily to overcome all obstacles, but sooner or later, thirty, fifty, or one hundred additional pounds   (the amount  can be variable), when maintained over a sustained period, tend to weaken one or more of the vital organs in the healthiest body. Every intelligent person knows these things; physicians frankly state that obesity, particularly in those of middle age and be­yond, can precipitate untold damage to the physical body, and hasten death. Insurance statistics and other sources prove the validity of the medical warnings. Would you not think, in the face of such alarming evidence, that long ago every thinking American would have quickly unburdened himself of every excess pound as a matter of course? Does it not seem incredible that instead of shedding pounds, national obesity has markedly increased? The sad truth is that will power is no match for habits of long standing. Should we crave sweets and starches and abhor green vegetables to the point of endangering our health, we then must simply remold our "taste" with the proper recorded suggestions, and begin actually to enjoy the things we formerly disliked. Obviously we can no longer have an over­weight problem if our craving for fattening foods is gone, and instead have a desire for food containing the proper nutritional elements.

DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING PERFECT HEALTH

Even ill health can become a habit. Like other mental pat­terns, health habits have early beginnings, then undergo a period of development to eventually become fixed, exerting thereafter great power and influence over the body. Just as some persons become accident prone, others inadvertently cultivate illness. Many people are never well and they regularly attract the symp­toms and physical weaknesses of their friends and neighbors. They somehow manage to catch frequent colds and entertain new viruses whenever they appear. They do not enjoy being sick, yet fixed patterns of thought do not permit them to remain well for very long. Except where congenital weakness is a factor, most of those who suffer from poor health have acquired through practice the ability to create physical weakness and even illness in their bodies. To be a successful hypochondriac takes time and effort, for the body is a durable machine. It corrects any manner of mistakes and heals itself. The repair system of the body is so nearly perfect that it maintains harmony under highly adverse conditions. Good health is a natural state and does not break down until effects of tension and poisonous thinking be­come too powerful to overcome. Mental habits take many paths. All who have poor health are not hypochondriacs—far from it. This is a name only for the extreme. But, regardless of the per­sistence or regularity of illness, its continued presence suggests a mental tolerance factor for illness. Those with a low tolerance for disease are rarely sick. Tolerance varies from nearly zero upward to a point where it blends into actual acceptance of ill­ness. At this point hypochondria begins.

Since man has developed self-awareness and has acquired the ability to doubt, he has exercised this factor to his disad­vantage too often. Without a clear understanding of thought power and the importance of doubt and belief, society has shifted to the left and has grown negative in its thinking. We are now-reaping the monstrous effects of misplaced doubt in the form of human weakness, fear, and disease. Humanity, as it swings further to the left, becomes even more negative through the continued misapplication of doubt. The misuse of doubt, or mis­placed doubt, can destroy health, business, and even nations. Apply doubt to the good and the desirable and you short-circuit positive action. When we doubt the good intentions of our neigh­bors, we court disaster. Why must we live today in a world bristling with arms and facing bankruptcy from top-heavy mili­tary expenses? Only because nations doubt each other's good intentions.

Doubt the integrity of your partner and you shatter the foundation of your business; doubt your husband or wife and you plant the seed of divorce. Doubt good health, continue to believe that you are weak, and you create the pattern for illness. How fortunate we are that our bodies are precision made and designed to survive; otherwise, man would have succumbed eons ago. Self-doubt, however, is a great destroyer, and when it is applied at length it can neutralize even the urge to survive. Persistent anxiety about health and a consuming fear of germs and disease apparently weaken natural immunity. Should this pattern continue, it is inevitable that we must become ill sooner or later. Unless such thoughts are erased, the body continues to grow weaker and illness more frequent.

Mental patterns responsible for general physical debilitation develop with time. Such patterns can be most effectively erased by suggestions given directly to the subconscious mind. Best results have been obtained from the three-phase health program outlined in this chapter. Many adults today need a general im­provement in health. Whether one is actually ill or merely the victim of chronic fatigue resulting from depressed mental habits, transitional-sleep suggestions will benefit him by attacking basic causes. Changes in concepts come about almost unnoticed. Feel­ings of apprehension may be powerful enough to dominate one's thoughts, yet slowly fade away until they disappear entirely while one listens to health tapes. Fear of contracting disease, germ consciousness, and anxiety over one's condition of health upset the normal functions of the body, yet such fears are noth­ing but acquired beliefs and can be removed completely.

Phase 1 (Building the foundation for perfect health).—The first phase of the health program builds the foundation for a strong body by erasing any existing negative concepts one may have acquired pertaining to physical weakness. Our health of tomorrow is being formed today by our beliefs and mental at­titudes. We cannot remain ill unless we seriously doubt good health, for illness cannot survive long in a climate that is positive, vital, and optimistic. A positive belief in good health is a power­ful therapeutic agent because "like attracts like." This is a pri­mary law of the universe, and sustained belief in a perfect body and perfect health erects the foundation for health and physical improvements to a degree almost beyond comprehension. Since physical alterations require time for development, at least one month should be spent on Phase 1 before progressing to Phase 2.

Phase 2 (Developing physical and mental health).—When we believe that we are weak, we doubt strength and invite weakness through the mechanics of doubt and the immutable law of attraction. Phase 1 delivers suggestions to the subconscious designed to erase the pattern of weakness. Phase 2 re­places the old pattern of doubt with a strong, powerful belief in health and strength. When you believe without doubt that good health is inevitable and your rightful heritage, you erase physical malfunction by inviting the natural rhythm and har­mony of life to restore perfection to your body. Those with good health have, through the years, built a mental picture of health that effectively denies thoughts of illness from remaining long in the consciousness. Perfect health is primarily a sound belief, a state of mind. Phase 2 impresses this belief on the canvas of the subconscious mind. A minimum of one month should be devoted to this phase before beginning the third and last phase of the health program. It should be noted that health tapes were not meant to replace medical attention. Even though medical science agrees that most illness occurs from wrong habits of thinking, this in no way minimizes the seriousness of self-gener­ated physical problems. When illness strikes, consult your doctor, as pain, discomfort, and/or other symptoms should never be ignored.

The suggestions on the tapes are not addressed to pain or symptoms; they go far deeper than that. The health recordings like all other transitional-sleep tapes, are made to eliminate causes, not effects. While it is true that transitional-sleep tapes produce miraculous alterations in health, the improvements come about spontaneously, following the relief of stress and the re­sumption of normal physical functions.

Phase 3 (Realization of health, happiness, and peace of mind).—Phase 1 eliminates old health habits, Phase 2 builds new patterns, and Phase 3 enforces the new concepts, bringing to reality the fruits of positive belief. Assuming that at least two months have been devoted to the first two phases, certain phys­ical and mental changes may be expected; in particular, nervous tension is visibly relieved and anxieties concerning health are noticeably reduced. When discouragement and feelings of de­pression are present, they will gradually be replaced by con­fidence and a sense of well-being. These changes bring marked improvements in appearance and general health. Perception is keener, alertness improves, and life in general takes on a new meaning. Alterations, both mental and physical, are gradual and almost imperceptible from day to day, but measured in terms of over-all gains they are most gratifying. "Before and after" pictures are the best evidence of change. This can be quite impressive.

People of all ages and conditions of health use the health tapes, so progress is relative and varies with the individual. Those who begin the tapes with moderately good health will need to spend less time on Phases 1 and 2 than others, for their problems are less severe. However, many spend more than a month with each tape, for the effects of all recordings are cumu­lative and individual results are the yardsticks of progress. Every­one benefits from health tapes even though the pace varies, for it is impossible to listen to the messages and remain un­affected. When results from Phases 1 and 2 are satisfactory, you are ready for Phase 3.

The gains to be realized from this tape are enormous, for not only are prior benefits stabilized, but broad new concepts of self-awareness are impressed upon the subconscious. Once the realization that a strong body and glow­ing health are indeed yours to enjoy, and the knowledge that you yourself have accomplished these things by controlling youi mind power, you will never again become the slave to wrong beliefs. You will understand that mind and its control are all-powerful, and can open the doors not only to health but to happiness and opportunities unlimited. Even after you have ceased to be concerned about your health you will continue to enjoy hearing Phase 3 for its ever new qualities of wisdom and inspiration.

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