Richard_D
07-29-2007, 09:23 PM
As I cap off my 9th cleanse with Jos-hua and this fantastic group, I'm led to ask myself how different things would have gone for me had I not found HPS Online just over 4 years ago. Or even if I had found it, but had gone my own way after completing the 4 levels, where would I be, what would I be doing if I didn't have the group here and the support that has never let me down from the first day?
It's a broad hypothetical situation, to be sure...obviously had I never discovered this program I would be in nowhere near as good a physical state as I am now. It's true that I had some experience with fasting prior to my time at HPS, but with zero support and only the guidance of books written 60-100 years ago about fasting during the "sanitarium" days; in fact I came close to seriously hurting myself going out and exploring on my own. So I might have continued going my own way and causing more trouble, or losing interest after a while and going back to life as "normal"--both choices would have been disastrous.
And without all that extra health--beyond physical health, this is multidimensional rejuvenation we're talking about--how could I have possibly attained the blessings that the last few years have brought to me, most obviously my new family? A mere handful of years ago I couldn't even sustain a relationship for more than a few months, and since then I've grown so much that I'm now not only married, but I actually have a new baby--that would have been impossible!
I was just in our room last night, the baby sometimes has trouble digesting and he gets upset, cries a lot, sometimes off and on for hours, loud, too...and here I was sitting there and doing my best to deal with it, calmly--inside as well as outside--and it struck me how I used to be somewhere in public and hear a baby crying like that, and I would think, it must be hell having to deal with that in your own house, it's bad enough being exposed to other peoples' kids in small doses; and that's really it, I think, what I was dealing with last night and many times up to now would have been my personal version of hell a few years ago. My, how things have changed.
Don't get me wrong, I hope the crying stops one of these days :D
So now I'm getting into a much deeper, and at the same time higher, level of cleansing now. And with it, my inner life is approaching a higher level as well. It's like I'm being allowed the occasional peek into realms I never knew existed, things I might have lived my whole life totally ignorant of--I wouldn't have been unusual had that been the case, few people I think are this lucky, certainly people with my background--and I feel blessed to have been given this opportunity, "lucky" doesn't begin to describe my introduction to HPS.
Whenever I write testimonials here, a part of me is constantly cautioning not to write too over-the-top; a testimonial with too much enthusiasm can seem the work of either an unbalanced or a dishonest mind. Yet I can state without hyperbole that HPS has been instrumental in guiding me into two new families, the one I share my home with in Taiwan, and the one I share my time with here in the HPS forums. Both are an irreplaceable part of my life.
Thank you Jos-hua, and thank you to all the many wonderful friends I have here at HPS Online.
Rick
It's a broad hypothetical situation, to be sure...obviously had I never discovered this program I would be in nowhere near as good a physical state as I am now. It's true that I had some experience with fasting prior to my time at HPS, but with zero support and only the guidance of books written 60-100 years ago about fasting during the "sanitarium" days; in fact I came close to seriously hurting myself going out and exploring on my own. So I might have continued going my own way and causing more trouble, or losing interest after a while and going back to life as "normal"--both choices would have been disastrous.
And without all that extra health--beyond physical health, this is multidimensional rejuvenation we're talking about--how could I have possibly attained the blessings that the last few years have brought to me, most obviously my new family? A mere handful of years ago I couldn't even sustain a relationship for more than a few months, and since then I've grown so much that I'm now not only married, but I actually have a new baby--that would have been impossible!
I was just in our room last night, the baby sometimes has trouble digesting and he gets upset, cries a lot, sometimes off and on for hours, loud, too...and here I was sitting there and doing my best to deal with it, calmly--inside as well as outside--and it struck me how I used to be somewhere in public and hear a baby crying like that, and I would think, it must be hell having to deal with that in your own house, it's bad enough being exposed to other peoples' kids in small doses; and that's really it, I think, what I was dealing with last night and many times up to now would have been my personal version of hell a few years ago. My, how things have changed.
Don't get me wrong, I hope the crying stops one of these days :D
So now I'm getting into a much deeper, and at the same time higher, level of cleansing now. And with it, my inner life is approaching a higher level as well. It's like I'm being allowed the occasional peek into realms I never knew existed, things I might have lived my whole life totally ignorant of--I wouldn't have been unusual had that been the case, few people I think are this lucky, certainly people with my background--and I feel blessed to have been given this opportunity, "lucky" doesn't begin to describe my introduction to HPS.
Whenever I write testimonials here, a part of me is constantly cautioning not to write too over-the-top; a testimonial with too much enthusiasm can seem the work of either an unbalanced or a dishonest mind. Yet I can state without hyperbole that HPS has been instrumental in guiding me into two new families, the one I share my home with in Taiwan, and the one I share my time with here in the HPS forums. Both are an irreplaceable part of my life.
Thank you Jos-hua, and thank you to all the many wonderful friends I have here at HPS Online.
Rick