Gaia: The 101 Program

Re: Find a Buddy – Want to do The 101 Program with someone?

http://milktissel.gaia.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:21:43 GMT

Hi
I realise this thread is a little out of date but even so, I'd be very grateful to find an online buddy to do this Program the 'As Is' method. The ecnomic crisis has put any other means of doing it beyond my reach. I'm based in Ireland where nobody I have spoken to (professional, AA or otherwise) seems even to begin to understand the obvious worth of this long neglected approach to healing alcoholism. (I'm not shouting BTW!). Anyway, if there anyone out there in the internet ether who, at 22 July 2009 would like to share the doing of this programme, I'll be getting underway with it within a week. I've already stopped drinking and cut out all sugar/white/flour and other food garbage. I tried this programme last year but couldn't get the exact formula recommended by Genita Petralli. I was also doing it while in a residential rehab where the doctors and counsellors were at best amused by it. I was forced to take drug medication during the first week also and ended up having to taking sleeping medication because of constant night time disturbances (incredibly loud snoring from heavily sedated patients sleeping other side of very thin bedroom walls!!!). Also had little control over dietary input though I tried to make the best I could of it. I have relapsed because there were just many factors that I wasn't doing right - including unresolved issues spiritually, relationship wise, exercise-wise etc. Despite ALL of these setbacks and obstacles, I know this programme is good because in comparison to many other attempts to stop, and although I was not doing it properly, the limited extent to which I did follow it still made me feel noticeably better and stronger than during any other attempt. I've read the book again completely, researched various issues it refers to online, made lots of notes, studied an appropriate spiritual approach which includes enneagram-related prayer and meditation, have a gentle yoga exercise regimen ready to roll - and also a swimming and walking schedule. All I have to do now is to get the neutriceuticals to get started. I'm gong to order them today or tomorrow and allowing for postal delivery from US to Ireland, it should be about a week before I can dive into prep week. Like others above, I'm excited and anxious (trying desperately to shut out the AA voice telling me this is all poppycock and that I'll be an alocholic for life no matter what I do.) Like others too, I want so much to give my whole self back to my family, healed and balanced and ready to play my part for their sakes and my own. A good friend or friends on this 1-2 year journey would be so much appreciated.
Milktissel

Re: Find a Buddy – Want to do The 101 Program with someone?

http://gtr362.gaia.com — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:34:40 GMT

I just started reading the book,today. I'm not yet familiar with what I need to do, so for now I'm doing a hard detox and willing to learn. Sure I'd like to correspond with someone who's walked the trail. Thanks!

Re: 101 Introductions

http://gtr362.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:26:41 GMT

Hey, my name's Neil. First off, I want to thank Miss Genita for writing her book! I've just begun and I think this is going to be great. Hope, something I haven't had in a while when it comes to my 30 year drinking career. Funny the way I found out about it. I was on YouTube looking for new ideas as to what might help me to get sober, pardon the "get sober", I still have a lot of AAism's in my head. Well I kept coming across AA videos and anti-AA videos and the more I drank that day the less I cared and I ended up just fighting with AA'ers on YouTube. Let me say that I don't have a problem with AA itself, but some of the stuff I was seeing was really making me mad. So I come across this nice looking woman who has her ideas about "alcoholism" so I figure well let's check her out. I looked at the video of her in her office (I guess it was her office), and I'm like Hmm, she's hot. Let me send her a message and tell her I think she's hot! Well I paused on that idea for a moment to see what she actually had to say. I sent her a message telling her what my initial intentions were, but then I went on to question her sincerity, and whether or not she really cared or was just trying to make money off of people. I don't think I did it in a disrespectful way though, she seemed sincere, but I've been there done that. She replied to my message the next day, and I read it in a hungover fog (20- 6% alcohol beers and 8 narcotic painkillers), fog is putting it mildly I was shaking like a leaf (I didn't eat at all that whole day) I felt like I was about to explode, would be more accurate. Without going into details, she convinced me of her sincerity. I just started reading the book today, and this is something that I think will work. I'll keep you guys posted and I appreciate those of you who have posted previously with success stories. Hope to hear from some of you!

Re: 101 Introductions

http://choosenot2booze.gaia.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:22:38 GMT

I've been drinking for 22-years. I started when I was 19, exactly on my birthday, because that was the legal age back then. I was always the party animal in college, I just never outgrew that title. I've been to "treatment" several times. I tried the AA thing, but only seemed to get more depressed. As alcohol began to due damage to my health, and I knew conventional "wisdom" didn't work, I started to read a book by Chris Prentis, the father of an alcoholic and heroin addict, who was relentless in helping his son get healthy after all conventional methods failed. The holistic approach seemed to make so much more sense to me. Further research brought me to the 101 program (thank you Genita)...... I was already seeing a Naturopath/Health Minister in Memphis, and he agreed to integrate the 101 program into his plan for me.

Long story short....here I am, incredibly excited to start the Krispy Klean (not as excited as when I misread and thought I was getting Krispy Kreme...I love the donuts). Got the blender, ordered the juicer, waiting on the supplements hopefully getting here soon, made my first trip to the Wild Oats.................bring it "alcoholism", I'm ready to kick your a@# butt

Your support is greatly appreciated.

Re: 101 Introductions

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:13:46 GMT

Hi there, I'm not using the 101 program specifically but I have been on a vitamin regimen designed to rebalance the brain on a physiological level, after years of substance abuse. It's based on the Power Method of recovery by Dr. Gant. I've been a heavy drinker for years but started some strange habits of sometimes compulsively drinking in the last year so I'm addressing this so I can be free and peaceful and content. I'm hopeful and excited to have found a path of recovery that makes sense to me. I discovered the 101 program after some internet searching and it sounds very similar to what I am already doing and I am eager to incorporate any and everything that supports this type of recovery so I thought I'd join to get some insight from you guys. So, that's that. Looking forward to whatever help this brings not only with this part of my journey, but with my bigger quest to live without such deep, internal struggle and with a soul free to be happy and open and alive. Thanks~Jennifer

Re: 101 Introductions

http://cherbee.gaia.com — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:07:03 GMT

Hi, I'm Cherbee,
I went through hell and back before I found this program in September '06.
I prayed for years that God would help me find my way through this and finally I found his answer on the Internet one night when I was trying to find some kind of online support group, being hesitant to join AA because as you know, it's not anonymous, even though it should be.
I ordered the book online, then I contacted the 101 program and I've been working my way through it ever since.
It was really amazing. My anxiety and my urge to drink alcohol literally left me in the first week. I spent a lot of that week sobbing with a mixture of joy and apprehension- feeling for the first time in about 10 years what I had always wanted to feel -a 'normal' relationship with alcohol. Like Elisabeth I was for a long time waiting for the whole thing to collapse and to start feeling lousy again, but I just don't need alcohol now.
This has changed my life to an unbelievable degree. I think I embarass the author by gushing at her with my thanks. But how do you thank someone for giving you your life back?
Hope to hear some of the rest of the stories.
Cherbee

Re: 101 Introductions

http://freshwells.gaia.com — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:20:38 GMT

Hello,

I'm Elizabeth and began the program in January of 2005. I had spent the previous 20 years drinking.

I had been in inpatient rehab, a daily outpatient rehab program, I had joined and left AA about 16 times, I had taken antabuse and tried every program under the sun when I read about this one on the Internet.

It made sense to me because I knew that anytime I did manage to stop drinking, my sugar consumption went into overdrive and I knew there was some kind of physical component to my drinking . I just knew it wasn't all in my head and that other people drank and it did not have the same effect on them it did on me.

I was at the end of my rope when I found Genita's program. I have 3 beautiful children and a wonderful husband, a great job but I literally spent every day in a bottle, from the moment I woke up until I passed out I drank and I had been doing it so long I had some people fooled, but not everyone.

I was dying inside. There was no more joy in life there was only alcohol and it brought me no pleasure anymore.

I tried Genita's program as a last resort and amazingly it worked. I was too frightened to believe it at first I kept waiting for the overwhelming craving to hit and for me to go back to drinking but it never happened.

Its 2 years later, my family has joy, I have joy and anyone who has this terrible biochemical inbalance can also find joy through this program. I really believe this. I am living proof.

Elizabeth

Re: Find a Buddy – Want to do The 101 Program with someone?

http://freshwells.gaia.com — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:12:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm Elizabeth and 2 years ago January 1st, 2005 I began this program and I have not had a drink since.

Pretty amazing after 20 years of drinking morning, noon and night.

If you'd like someone to email or chat with or just have a question about how you do something, please reach out to me. I would LOVE to be of any help in sharing how the program worked for me and my new joy in life.

Nutrition & Earth's Farmacy applied to Addictive Biochemistry

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:22:36 GMT

Here the author and others can present various research and holistic methods showing promise and producing healthy results in regards to Addictive Biochemistry! This is a forum to report results so that others may possibly benefit from your experience!

And by the stream upon it's bank...

Shall grow all trees for food...

It shall bring forth new fruit every month...

Because their waters have issued out of

The sanctuary, and its fruit shall be for

Food, and its leaf for medicine.

Ezekiel 47:12

The Jerusalem Bible - Tanakh

Look! It's a Bird!

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:59:44 GMT

Life becomes very enchanting living the 101 Life, here's your place to share your experiences while awakening to and consciously integrating with this magical world we live in.

Re: Honoring the Honorable - Dr. Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D.

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:54:26 GMT

Okay, I started this thread so I'm going to be the first to honor a physician that has crossed all the professional lines to practice orthomolecular medicine and in doing so has spent over 55 years helping cure schizophrenia and cancer using the principles and techniques of orthomolecular medicine.

He has also successfully treated alcoholism and actually inspired Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA to pursue orthomolecular treatment for himself and his fellow members of AA.    Here is a quote from Dr. Hoffer regarding this subject: "I have been using niacin for alcoholics for the past 30 years. This treatment was first widely publicized by my good and close friend Bill W. Co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He circulated a treatis called The Vitamin B-3 Therapy to physician members of AA. I had advised Bill to take niacin 3 grams daily to control his severe tension, fatigue and insomnia. Within two weeks he was well." Reducing Bill's symptoms also reduced his desire for alcohol. This experience launched Bill W. into a passionate mission to try and get this treatment into the AA experience and to continue research. However, the physicians of AA ridiculed him and refused to acknowledge the promising results of orthomolecular medicine. Despite the success of the treatments, the physcians of AA dismissed the promising results of B3 therapy and essentially told Bill that he, as a layperson, had no business promoting therapies for those addicted to alcohol and the symptoms they suffer... mind you, these were the very same physicians that Bill appointed to the AA General Services Council!

Here is the cancer page with some info and an interview with this brillaint doctor who, if he had saved so many lives with a new therapy in conventional medicine would have probably won a Nobel Peace  prize: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/08/08/orthomolecular_treatment_of_cancer_depression.htmand here is the one regarding the holistic curing of schizophrenia http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer/hofferhp.htm. Dr. Abram Hoffer has worked with some of the greatest names in bio medicine such as double Noble Peace Prize winner Linus Pauling who coined the phrase "orthomolecular medicine", and has a solid record of achievement represented in the lives he has saved from cancer and schizophrenia. He has been known to challenge conventional doctors making empty claims of the validity of psychotropic drugs in mental health treatment by asking "And just how many of your patients are well?" I love this man. He speaks with my tongue :-).

Dr. Hoffer has everything I admire in a doctor/healer: he speaks the truth, treats with heart and compassion; vision, strength and truly cares about his patients- he is full of spirit and i'm sure a lot of it is somehow received by his patients.   Regarding speaking the truth, here is a quote from his biography that sums of the murderous crimminality of those in government, conventional medicine, and pharmaceutical sales in the name of ego and profit that disregard nature's cures and actively prevent people from benefitting from them:

"I give my critics full credit for having delayed the full introduction of orthomolecular medicine into the medical world and for having denied life, health, and happiness for innumerable patients. Supporters of old paradigms never realize how much damage they do by their remarkable rigidity and adherence to old theories." I can not find better words to express my exact sentiments for those that have dismissed the success of orthomolecular treatment and purposely prevented integrating orthomolecular medicine into mainstream society for the treatment of addictive biochemistry!

For more info on his work with Bill W. and his successful holistic therapies for schizophrenia and cancer, a full biography can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Hoffer. If you know anyone that needs help his office is in Canada- they can be at

Name: Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Academic Degrees/Certifications: MD, Ph.D.
Clinic:
Address: 2727 Quadra, Suite 3
City: Victoria
State: British Columbia
Zip:
Country: Canada
Phone: 250-386-8756
WebSite: http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/index.php
Summary: Orthomolecular Medicine.

Dr. Hoffer is being presented with a lifetime achievment award from the International Schizophrenia Foundation at the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine this April/07. Please see http://orthomed.org/NMT/nmt.html for details on this historic event honoring this brilliant, accomplished, compassionate doctor.

Honoring the Honorable

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:15 GMT

Those true healers... those who truly align themselves with the sources of healing energy, respect the laws of nature and the physician within, and in heart and soul love humanity and all living creatures (including earth!) to the extent that they spend their lives helping others through reporting from the consciousness of love and compassion, with fierce passion and dedication to practice and speak the truth, sometimes even in the face of outright attacks from conventional medicine practitioners, all they know about healing the mind and body. Let's honor those that dedicate their precious lives in developing the hard earned gifts that awaken them as healers. Who then share, practice, and facilitate their gifts to help the afflicted come to resonate once again with the healing streams of energy found when our existence is harmoniouisly integrated with the universe and the enchanted frequencies of life flow through us replacing dis-ease with vibrant health. Let's honor them with mention so that others looking for some of what they provide can find the help they need!

This is a space for both People doctors and Earth doctors! (environmentalists :-))

Help! 101 – Have a Program challenge? Share Here

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:46:34 GMT

"Challenges are the universes way of telling you it has something better in store for you. The 101 Program is a challenge, but the rewards of health and the life it produces justifies every one of them!" Genita Petralli

The 101 Program can be quite a leap into another world for many. Many people come to the program having only known steak and potatoes, or ribs and 'slaw. Or live in an environment that is not very supportive of healthy, conscious living. Here you can post your challenge and find a community of folks that faced the same issues on the program. Insights from friends with similar experiences is the polish that helps you see the gem better!

Find a Buddy – Want to do The 101 Program with someone?

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:38:58 GMT

If you're thinking about doing the program but understand and want to benefit from the thrill of doing it with a program buddy, here's the place to post yourself as looking for a buddy or search to find someone.

Smile! You're changing the world for the better when you do!

The Water Cooler – bath in the energy of good company

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:35:00 GMT

This is the place to make new friends, integrate, facilitate and educate each other. Have Fun! It's good orthomolecular medicine!

101 Introductions

http://the101program.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:18:06 GMT

Introduce yourself, what you're into and what excites you about The 101 Program and the Zaadz.com community!