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The Three “One Things”

There’s saying in the news business to never, never bury the lead.

This chapter is the lead. If you get this, you get everything. So, get this…

Crazy title, huh? Let us try to explain.

In the original City Slickers movie with Billy Crystal, Curly, played by Jack Palance, was the tough, stodgy old cowboy who almost never spoke. But under that rough exterior, Billy Crystal found the wisdom of the ages. In an improbable heart-to-heart between the two, Curly shared with Billy the Secret of Life. The Secret of Life, he said, was one thing. When pressed to name it, Curly refused to divulge what that one thing was. He said Billy would have to find that one thing for himself. And, indeed, everyone needs to find that one thing for themselves.

You see, “One Thing” can make all the difference. Have you ever spoken to someone about their life when suddenly there was a dramatic positive change in their manner? At some point, a sparkle came into their eye as they spoke of one person, one moment, one event, one open door, one breakthrough… ONE THING.

We want to offer you, right now, three “One Things.” We believe that as far as your life, your health, and your prosperity are concerned, these three things make all the difference. Not only are we going to tell you what they are, we’re going to prove them to you and share with you a new discovery that can become the sparkle in your eye that you look back on for the rest of your life.

If you do not agree that we have done what we just said we were going to do, then please ask us to return the money you spent for this book.

ONE THING #1

There is one thing on planet Earth that can heal just about any problem in your life.

What is it? The immune and healing systems of the body.

Think about or write down the top two or three problems in your life. Health problems, career, relationship, finances—it doesn’t matter what it is. I’m assuming that unless the problem just arose this very minute, you have already tried something (or many somethings) to resolve or lessen this as a problem in your life. If you haven’t, cool! You can start now with the one that will actually fix it. No problem. If you have tried other things, then we believe you’re at the end of your search. Here’s why. Imagine for a minute that whatever your problem is, you could have God himself reach down and hand you a supernatural pill, liquid, secret, treasure map… in other words, a solution not of this world, guaranteed to work. Boy, would that be awesome! Guess what? You already have it!

Every person has an absolutely miraculous healing system in his or her body that can heal any physical or non-physical issue that a person might have. It’s called your immune system. We are born with a self-healing program inside that is designed to be capable of fixing any problem before it becomes a problem. Even if a problem does develop, that’s okay, too. The program can fix it once the problem arises.

Awhile back my computer was not working properly. Not being a computer person, I became frustrated by trying everything I knew how to do. Finally, I called a good friend of mine who is a computer whiz kid. After asking a few simple questions, he confidently told me that I needed to defrag my hard drive. I had never heard of such a thing, but was thrilled to discover that it was a simple matter of pushing a couple of buttons. After doing this, my computer ran almost like new. I was amazed that such a wonderful function could be inside my computer and I did not even know it.

Just like the computer’s “defrag” program, your immune system is capable of healing any issue you may have with amazing speed and efficiency. I (Ben) can tell you that if you were to ask one important question of just about any doctor or health care practitioner in the world, and they answered honestly, every one of them would answer “no.” So what’s the question? “Is there any disease or illness that an optimally functioning immune system cannot heal?” Answer: No. In fact, many experts believe (and I concur) that the only healing that ever happens for any person for any health issue happens because of the immune system.

You may be thinking, “But how can I apply this to relationships, or finances, or career, or other non-physical things that may be a struggle in my life?” As you will see later in the book, specifically in Secret #3 (but don’t peek!), new discoveries at several of our finest and most highly regarded medical schools have found that the source of illness and disease is also the source of the other problems in our lives. Furthermore, we believe and will present proof to you that we have actually discovered a part of the body’s healing system that people have never known about before. We believe this new healing mechanism and how to turn it on can be the One Thing that creates a breakthrough with the struggles of your life.

If you’re a reasonably intelligent person and think about this long enough, you’re very likely to come up with this question: “If this healing system really can heal anything and it’s already inside me, then why do I have the problems in the first place? Why hasn’t it already healed them or prevented them from happening?”

We’re glad you asked. Because that takes us to One Thing #2.

ONE THING #2

There is one thing on planet Earth that will turn off One Thing #1.

So what is it? Stress. (But probably not what you think of when you think of stress.)

If the immune and healing systems of the body can heal any problem you have, then the thing that turns those systems off must be the one cause of all illness and disease. It is. According to Stanford University Medical School in research released in 1998 by Dr. Bruce Lipton, a highly renowned and respected cell biologist, stress is the cause of at least 95 percent of illness and disease. Dr. Lipton reports that the remaining 5 percent is genetic and was caused, you guessed it, by stress somewhere in the ancestry of that person. Even the US Federal Government, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says on their website that 90 percent of all illness and disease is related to stress. Just about any authoritative source you could name agrees–Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, The Mayo Clinic, and the list goes on.

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