Life 2 the Full

By Raymond Floodgate

Life 2 the Full is a self-help book that shows the reader how to improve health and well-being by preventing Illness from happening in the first place. This book will guide you through the elements needed to help you live your life to the full.

Life 2 the Full covers such subjects as health and well-being, food, exercise for the body, and exercise for the mind. Stress is also covered in this book, including ways to eliminate it. Other topics include breathing, relaxation, meditation, money, and abundance. The goal is to help the reader achieve a life that is lived to the full.

If you are struggling with your life through constant recurring illness, stress, food-related problems, or lack of purpose, Life 2 the Full will teach you how to change the life you are living now into a life that you never thought possible. The book is written in plain English, is easy to understand, and will give you an insight into how easy it is to change your life should you want to.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524661533

Raymond Floodgate

Raymond Floodgate is a certified Reiki master and teacher, a qualified practitioner of energy healing, and an energy healing teacher. He was a practitioner and instructor of Shotokan karate for twelve years but now focuses on preventing illness. To this end, he has studied Tai Chi, Qigong, and meditation.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Living Life to the Full

Chapter 2 Breathing

Chapter 3 Relaxation

Chapter 4 Exercise

Chapter 5 Food

Chapter 6 Longevity

Chapter 7 The three Dantians

Chapter 8 Abundance

Chapter 9 Money

Chapter 10 God

Chapter 11 Peace of Mind

Chapter 12 Lifestyle

Chapter 13 Birth and Death Cycle

Chapter 14 For What Purpose?

Chapter 15 We Can Make Changes

Chapter 16 The Way It Works

Chapter 17 Conclusion

About the Author

Chapter 1

Living Life to the Full

Living life to the full means different things to different people. For most of us, it means holding down a job that will support our family’s wants and needs. Many of us get only one day off a week to relax, pursue an activity or hobby, do the weekly shopping, visit relatives and friends, or catch up with the latest film at the cinema. We might think that with all of our social activities and household chores, our lives are as full as they can get. Anyway, the TV is on now, so it’s time to chill out.

That is not living life to the full.

An empty life will always appear to be full if it is cluttered with trivia, meaningless activities, and gossip. You need to fill the space you occupy with thoughts and activities that have purpose and will help you grow as a person who will progress to greater things.

Gossip is the scourge of modern-day society. Almost anyone can become a victim. Beware the so-called friend who whispers behind your back. Gossip doesn’t even have to be true. A rumour will suffice – just as long as it creates the right impact on delivery and starts the wheels turning. It then takes on a life of its own as it moves from person to person. Your reputation and credibility can be torn to shreds with just one quick and wicked wag of the tongue – but, never fear, retribution is not far away from the vengeful tongue of the gossip. No one can hide from the universal law of karma: "As you sow, so shall you reap."

Gossiping is not one of the requirements for living life to the full. You should fill the space you occupy with things that will help you to grow as a person. Do not gossip about other people; you are only hurting yourself and may hold back your own development and progress.

It has been said that most people spend more time planning their holiday than planning their life. You can spend many hours planning for one and months or years saving your money. It can consume hours, days, and even months of thought energy. More often than not, when the time arrives, your expectations are running high. This can create quite a stressful occasion.

Before you know it, the two- or three-week holiday in the sun is over – in what seems like the twinkling of an eye – and you are left wondering where the time went. You start to pack your bags for the long journey home, and then the tension sets in again. As you make your way back to the airport, you mentally prepare yourself for the return to work and the mundane pace of your normal life.

A holiday is an adventure that takes us out of what is considered our normal life. Many hope that going on holiday will somehow change the whole of their life for the better, but it doesn’t. It is just a holiday. It lasts a week or two and then lingers on in the head for another couple of weeks. This is not living life to the full.

Such recreational events make up only a small part of your life. They’re not worth the amount of time or energy that is spent preparing for them, and they’re not worth the time and energy that is spent afterwards thinking about and trying to relive them. Holidays are absolutely a part of our life (and a very necessary part at that), but they should be put into perspective. They should not be regarded as the be-all and end-all of life. Put more energy into filling the space you occupy on a day-to-day basis; this will help you to grow as a person so you can progress to greater things.

Living life to the full doesn’t mean that you must cram as much as you can into every minute of every day. You should only do every day whatever is comfortable for you. Never do too much: filling your day with too much work, too many activities, and even too much rest brings you into the realm of extremes. This can lead to all kinds of problems, both mental and physical. Always take the middle way and stay within the parameters of common sense. To do anything to excess repeatedly will put great strain upon your body and mind. If this is not checked, it can cause your body to start to break down – and that is definitely not living life to the full.

If you start to break down, either mentally or physically, ill health can set in. This quickly impairs your ability to complete the tasks that you intend to complete during your stay on earth. The tasks that I refer to are the lessons that were set for you when you were preparing to come to this world.

Shortening your life by self-infliction is no excuse for not completing the lessons you came here to learn. Your physical body has a self-healing mechanism built in; it is quite able to repair itself and will keep working way beyond the lifespan that has been allotted to you for completing your lessons. Living life to the full means achieving, successfully, the activities that need to be completed and learned for that day. Do not put in so much effort that your mind and body come under pressure. There is no need to make your life uncomfortable.

Only do the right amount of work for today; there is no need to do more. Do not try to do tomorrow’s activities today. Do not try to catch up on the things that you should have done yesterday. You will only upset the balance within yourself, and this may cause you problems in the future. To live life to the full, you only need to fill the space you occupy with the right amount of thoughts and the right amount of activities. This will help you grow as a person so you may progress to greater things.

It is important to stay healthy while you are on this world. Living life to the full is the way to achieve this. Unfortunately, we live in a society that does not promote health; it is more focused on making money, and several industries rely on people becoming ill so they have to buy medication to remedy their illnesses (many of which are the product of other industries). This only solves one problem, and that is the one that interests the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries: how to make money. They make huge amounts of money, but people are still ill.

Generally, people do not need large amounts of medication. What they need is education. They need to learn about prevention rather than prescriptions. This mentality of waiting for things to go wrong so that they can be fixed seems to apply to most things, and it most certainly applies to the health of the world population. We live in a world that relies on drug-related remedies to treat illnesses. This type of regimen does not get to the root of the problem; it only treats the symptoms.

When one lives life to the full, there is no illness. The truth of this statement will become more apparent as you read further into this book.

It is claimed by experts from various good lifestyle organisations that healthy eating, maintaining a good exercise regimen, and thinking and acting in a positive manner will increase longevity. While all of these activities are essential to living a healthy life, not one of them will increase the length of your life by even one minute over the time that has been already allotted to you. Living life to the full includes all of the fields of activity and more. None of them can make you live longer, but each of them can help you to live better. You can create a healthier, fitter, and mentally stronger life right up to the day you die, and that is a fact. To live your life to the full, you must fill the space you occupy. This will help you grow as a person and progress to greater things.

Exercise

It is true that exercise is good for the body and mind. There are many kinds of exercises that you can do to help maintain your health and fitness. Many of these are done by top athletes all over the world. They are recommended by sports scientists and health experts to the populations of all nations worldwide – and rightly so. But the correct exercise is best.

When you do the correct exercise, the benefits far outweigh any benefits that you might obtain from all other forms of exercise. I will be explaining what exercise is the correct exercise in a later chapter. For now, just understand that the correct exercise is one of the components needed to live life to the full and help you to fill the space you occupy so that you can grow as a person and progress to greater things.

Food

It may be in a book or on TV – even films are being made about food, from the humble burger to gourmet food and everything in between – but all over the world, food presenters tell us what we should and shouldn’t eat. They all seem to have their own ideas about what is best for us, but the correct food is best. The correct food is one of the components needed to live life to the full.

It is important that you eat a balanced toxin-free diet. You may find that, to get a toxin-free diet, you have to travel further afield when shopping. It is unlikely that you will get what you need from the average supermarket. When you look at what supermarkets are selling in more detail, you may find that, although they offer a large variety of food products that are supposed to fill your daily dietary needs, many of these products fall short of this requirement. You may also realise after a little more investigation that supermarkets are not so super after all.

The correct food is the best food. It will give you all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, fibre, and amino acids your body requires. The correct food will help you to regulate your weight, and it will be toxin-free. I will be writing more about correct food in a later chapter. Correct food coupled with the correct exercise are two of the components that will help you live life to the full.

Energy

We get energy from eating the correct foods. We also get energy from practising the correct exercise. So what is this energy I am talking about? This energy is called chi or life-force energy. Chi is everywhere, just like the air we breathe – except that the air we breathe is confined to a thin band or layer around the earth, whereas chi resides in the whole of the universe and beyond.

Chi is seated at the atomic level within your body. Without chi, you would not be able to sustain life and neither would any other living thing. Chi is the most important and precious substance in the universe, and it is used by the innate intelligence within our body to self-heal. Our body is under attack every day, and self-healing with chi takes place twenty-four hours a day every day. Chi will protect us from any disease or illness that may be present within us. If chi is healing us each minute of every day, then why is it that we still get ill? I shall explain this at a later stage in this book.

You replenish your body with chi every time you breathe. Chi is also being replaced when you eat the correct food and also when you do the correct exercises. Knowing the importance of chi and the role it plays in not only our lives but the life of the whole universe, I am surprised how few people know about its existence – most especially those people who are in positions within our society where having this knowledge could make a difference.

Breathing

We all breathe the air that is around us. It is obviously something that must be done for life to continue on this planet. Knowing how important breathing is, I am amazed to find that very few people do it correctly. As many as 95 per cent of people who I have been associated with over the years tend to shallow-breathe. Shallow-breathing will keep you alive, but it is not the correct method of breathing.

Shallow-breathing is the lazy way of breathing – although, in the long run, it takes more effort to do. When you shallow-breathe, you deny your body the correct amount of oxygen for it to function properly. The lack of oxygen will starve some, if not all, of the organs in your body of their full quota of fuel, thus affecting their performance. When the organs in your body are not getting the correct amount of oxygen or the right amount of chi, then over a long period of time they will start to develop problems and will eventually break down.

This fact must be known by professional people in this area of expertise, but when I ask students in my classes who have suffered with diseased organs, and others who have respiratory problems, whether they have been given instruction for correct breathing either by hospital consultants or by their GP, the answer is always no. Instead, in the case of those with respiratory problems, they have been given an inhaler to help them breathe.

I am not saying that giving out drugs to people who need them is not necessary, but surely one must look at a remedy that does not include taking drugs first, especially something as simple as the instruction of correct breathing. Correct breathing is another component that will help you to live life to the full, and it will also enable you to fill the space you occupy and grow as a person to progress to greater things. I will describe the correct way of breathing later in this book.

Relaxation

Relaxation is not something that comes naturally to most people. To some, it doesn’t come at all. It is a difficult subject to teach, as relaxing means one thing to some people and something totally different to others. When all is said and done, when one is relaxed, one is relaxed. You are either relaxed or you are not. Total relaxation has to be worked on by everyone – but when you get it and can master it, it never leaves you.

You can sit in a chair with your feet up drinking a glass of wine and feel quite comfortable, but that’s not relaxation. You will know when you are truly relaxed because it is unmistakeable; there is nothing like it. Correct relaxation is the only relaxation there is. Any other meaning of the word is not relaxation; it is something else. When there is true and correct relaxation, you may find that things will generally run smoother in your life. When you are truly relaxed, whatever it is that you want from life will come to you with less effort. The correct method of relaxation is another component that will help you live life to the full.

Stress

Cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer of humans in the Western world. This is a fact that is widely talked about in the published reports of the medical industry. We eat too much of the wrong foods. We have a diet full of fat, starch, and sugar, and as a nation we consume more processed food than we should while going without the fresh healthy food that the body needs. We all know this, so why do we do it?

Cancer is the second most frequently reported killer in the Western world. There is a list of ailments as long as your arm that also has scary statistics to go with them. These ailments always have one thing in common: They all have the same cause, and that cause is stress. It doesn’t matter what the disease is called, there is always only one cause, and that is stress. If you treat your body and your mind as if they are not worth anything, then guess what, that is exactly what they will end up being worth. Respect your mind by thinking in the correct manner. Respect your body by giving it the correct nourishment and by doing the correct exercise. You will remain fit and healthy right up until the day you leave here.

Stress will unbalance your body and mind. It is the biggest killer because it is the cause of all illness and disease. It is not the symptom. By eating the wrong foods, you put the organs that have the job of digesting that food under stress. By doing the wrong exercise, you are putting the muscles, tendons, and ligaments affected by that exercise under stress. When you think incorrect thoughts, you put your mind under stress. When you are able to eliminate stress from every part of your life, you will be opening the way to leading a better, healthier life. Don’t miss this opportunity. Be aware of what this book is offering you. Read the rest of it and practice what you read. Then you too will be able to live life to the full.

Egotistic behaviour

When you have thoughts of your own grandeur (and this is an excellent example of incorrect thinking) and place yourself above all others in your mind, it is very rare that anything you dream will come to fruition outside of your head. Egotism is a quality that must be conquered if progress is to take place in this life. How on earth can you help those in need while your mind is so engrossed with its own self-importance? Get rid of egotistical behaviour by adjusting your thoughts. Correct thinking is best. When the mind is thinking correctly, this can lead you to a life being lived to the full.

So far in this book, I have mentioned some of the things you might want to take a look at in your own life. In the remaining chapters, I aim to show you how to live your life to the full, should you want to. This will also help you to fill the space that you occupy so that you can grow as a person and progress to greater things.

Change is possible

Can you imagine yourself living a life in which the common cold does not exist and all major diseases and illnesses no longer occur in the body or in the mind? Can you imagine yourself at 40 or 50