Life 2 the Full

By Raymond G. 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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Jul 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781643451169

Raymond G. 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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Raymond G. Floodgate

Life 2 the Full

Copyright © 2018 Raymond G. Floodgate

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ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-948654-46-3

ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-64345-116-9

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Chapter 1

Food

Energy

Breathing

Relaxation

Stress

Egotistic Behaviour

Chapter 2. Can You Imagine a World?

Chapter 3. Breathing

Breathing Correctly

Chapter 4. Relaxation

Meditation

Contemplation

Chapter 5. Exercise

Qigong

Chapter 6. Food

Chapter 7. Longevity

More on Health

Chapter 8. The Three Dantians

Abundance

The Universe and How We Exist in It

Chapter 9. Money

What Is the Reason for Life?

Intuition

Chapter 10. God

Time

The Abundant Universe

Chapter 11. Peace of Mind

Emotions

Chapter 12. Lifestyle

Newcomers

Change

Chapter 13. Birth and Death Cycle

The Basic Meaning of Karma

Religion

More on Intuition

Entities

Chapter 14. For What Purpose

Second-Hand Knowledge

It’s All about the Body

Chapter 15. We Can Make Changes

Money

Redundant Professions

Politics

Modify the Way We Work

Chapter 16. The Way It Works

What Is Creative Living?

Chapter 17

The Achievements

Chapter 1

Living life to the full means different things to different people. On average, living life to the full for most people means holding down a job that will help to support the family’s wants and needs. Many of us only get one day off a week to relax and pursue an activity or hobby they may have. Also, a lot of people use their day off to do the weekly shop or perhaps visit relatives and friends, but although one might think that because the day appears to be full with social activities and household chores going on, there is never really any time left to fit anything else in. Anyway, the TV is on now, so it is time to chill out. That is not living life to the full .

It has been said that the average person spends more time planning their holiday than they spend planning their life. A holiday lasts for a couple of weeks or so and then lingers on in the head for another couple of weeks. Then, I guess, it’s time to plan for the next one.

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 things that have purpose and that will help you grow as a person who will progress to greater things.

Gossip

Gossip is the scourge of modern-day society. It would seem that almost anyone can become the victim of a gossip at some time in their life; beware of the so-called friend whispering 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 and moves around from person to person. An innocent person’s reputation and credibility can be torn to shreds with just one quick and wicked wag of the tongue, but as always, 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 needed to live life to the full. Fill the space you occupy with the things that will help you to grow as a person and do not gossip about others because you will only hurt yourself and may hold back your own development and progress.

Everybody loves a holiday. You can spend many hours planning it and months or years saving your money for it. It can consume hours, days, and even months of thought energy, and more often than not, when the time arrives for your holiday to begin and because your expectations are running high, it can be quite a stressful occasion. Then, before you know it, the two- or three-week holiday in the sun is over in what would seem to be a twinkling of an eye. Where did the time go? You start to pack your bags ready 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. Holidays are an adventure taking us out of what is considered to be our normal life. Many hope that by going on holiday, it will somehow change their whole life for the better, but it doesn’t, it is just a holiday.

This is not living life to the full. A holiday is just a recreational event and is only a small part of your life; it’s not worthy of the amount of time or energy that is spent preparing for it nor is it worthy of the time and energy that is spent afterwards thinking about and trying to relive it. Holidays are absolutely a part of one’s life, and a very necessary part, but they should be put into perspective and 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 and 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 not living life to the full.

If your body starts to break down, either mentally or physically, then ill health can set in and may affect the chances of you being able to complete the tasks that you intended 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.

To shorten your life by self-infliction is not an excuse for not completing the lessons you came here to learn. Your physical body has a self-healing mechanism built in and is quite able to repair itself and will keep working way beyond the life span that has been allotted to you for completing your lessons. Living life to the full means achieving, successfully, the correct activities that need to be completed and learned for that day. Do not put in so much effort that your mind and body will 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 or 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 and progress to greater things.

It is important that we keep healthy while we 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 to do this, it relies on people becoming ill and then selling them medication to remedy their illness. This only solves one problem, and that is the one that the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries have, which is how to make money. They now make huge amounts of money, but people are still ill. Generally, people do not need large amounts of medication; they only need education. They need to learn about prevention rather than treatments. 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 illness; 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. This statement will become more apparent as you get 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 one’s longevity. Whereas all these activities are essential to living a healthy life, not one of them will increase the length of your life even by one minute longer than the time that has been already allotted to you. Living life to the full includes all these fields of activity and more. None of them can make you live longer, but all of them can help you to live 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.

It is true that exercise is good for the body and mind, but the correct exercise is best. There are many kinds of exercises that you can do to help maintain your health and fitness. Many of these exercises are performed by top sportsmen and women all over the world and 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. The correct exercise is one of the components needed to live life to the full and will help you to fill the space you occupy so that you can grow as a person and progress to greater things.

Food

It doesn’t matter where you look; it can be in a book or on the TV, even films are being made about food, from burgers to cordon bleu and everything in between. All over the world, there are food presenters telling 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 the best. The correct food is one of the components needed to live life to the full. It is important that when you eat, you should have a balanced and toxin-free diet, which means that you may have to look a little further afield than the weekly trip to the supermarket. When you look at supermarkets in more detail, you may find that although they offer a large variety of food products that are supposed to fill our daily dietary needs, many of these products fall short of this requirement. You may also feel that after a little more investigation, 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 that your body requires; it will help you to regulate your weight, and it will be toxin-free. Coupled with the correct exercise, these two components 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 earth, whereas chi resides in the whole of the universe and beyond.

Chi is seated at the cellular level within our 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 of every day and 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 (life-force energy) 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

Everybody breathes the air that is around them; this 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 that I have been associated with over the years tend to shallow-breathe. Shallow breathing will keep you alive, but the correct method of breathing is the best. To shallow-breathe is the lazy way of breathing although, in the long run, it takes more effort to do. When you shallow-breathe, it denies the body the correct amount of oxygen for it to function properly. The lack of oxygen will starve some, if not all, the organs in the body of their full quota of fuel, thus affecting their performance. When the organs in the body are not getting the correct amount of oxygen or the right amount of chi, then over a long period, 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 having asked students in my classes, who have suffered with diseased organs and also others who have respiratory problems, whether they had been given instruction for correct breathing either by hospital consultants or by their GP, the answer was no. However, in the cases of those with respiratory problems, they had been given an inhaler to help them breathe. I am not saying that giving out drugs to people who may 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 will also enable you to fill the space you occupy and will help you grow as a person to progress to greater things.

Relaxation

Relaxation is not something that comes naturally to most people, and to some, it doesn’t come at all. It is a difficult subject to teach as the meaning of relaxing to some people is one thing, and to others, it can be something totally different. When all things are said and done, if you are relaxed, then you are relaxed. You either are 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. The 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, then you may find that things will generally run smoother in your life; when you are truly relaxed, then 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 of fat, starch, and sugar, and as a nation, we consume more processed food than we should at the expense of going without the fresh healthy food that the body needs. We all know this, so why do we do it? Cancer is the second highest reported killer in the Western world. There is a list of ailments as long as your arm that also has statistics to go with them, and 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, nothing. Respect your mind by thinking in the correct manner. Respect your body by giving it the correct nourishment and by doing the correct exercise, then you will remain fit and healthy right up until the day you leave here.

Stress will unbalance the body and mind and is the biggest killer because it is the cause of all illness and disease, it is not the symptom. By eating the wrong food, 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, then 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 self-grandeur (and this is an excellent example of incorrect thinking), and you place yourself above all else in the mind, this is futile as it is very rare that it will come to fruition outside of your head. Egotistic tendency is a quality that must be conquered if progress is to take place in this life. When you have thoughts that are only of yourself, how on earth can help be given to those in need while the mind is so engrossed with its own self-importance? Get rid of egotistic 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 that you might want to take a look at in your own life. So to do this and to be able to live your life to the full, should you want to, throughout the remaining chapters