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From the Introduction:Quote:This is a book for anyone who is seeking a logical, scientific, and practically tested set of principles for daily life. It is a book about waking up, cleansing, eating, drinking, massage, sex, and home remedies.It is a book about right living, about synchronizing the individual organism with the cycles of the cosmos that has given it birth. It is a book about becoming normal.There are chapters on meditation, exercises, and the cycle of breath—for all the se are ways of tuning the system in shorter spans of time. But this is not a book about getting high. It is a book about becoming right. As much as one goes high, so much one has to go low. This is a fundamental law of the universe, readily apparent from the practical experience of life.This is a book about techniques of centering, about stabilizing one’s energy, about creating a place within one’s own being to which one can return at will. One who has a center within him- or herself can then look with detachment upon the ever changing face of the illusory world. And he or she can even begin to laugh.This book is based upon my own cultural experience and the ageless traditions of India. On the pages that follow are practices from yoga, from Ayurvedic medicine (a system dating back thousands of years before Christ), from the ancient Yunani system of the Greeks and Muslims, and from the timeless tribal cultures that inhabit the plains, deserts, and mountains of the Indian subcontinent.But the validity of these practices is not limited to Indians. There is nothing on the se pages that has not been tried successfully on and by those born and raised in America. Truth, to be worthy of its name, must be universal.ContentsCover Title PageA Note about the CoverTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The Three GunasChapter Two: The Science of BreathChapter Three: The Glory of Waking UpChapter 4: Energizing Your Body through MassageChapter 5: Bathing: A Way to VitalityChapter 6: The Meaning of MeditationChapter 7: Diet: Why Vegetarianism?Chapter 8: Diet: Toward a New UnderstandingChapter 9: Diet: Specific FoodsChapter 10: Fasting: Reprogramming the OrganismChapter 11: Notes on SleepChapter 12: Your Need for ExerciseChapter 13: Home RemediesChapter 14: Why Jewelry for Health?Chapter 15: Semen, Drugs, and YouthChapter 16: ConclusionFootnotesAbout the AuthorAbout Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Copyright & PermissionsPaperback: 240 pagesPublisher: Healing Arts Press (Nov. 1 1998)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 089281618XISBN-13: 978-0892816187ASIN: B008525S52