This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 27th day of December, 1926, in accordance with request made by his brother, [900].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for the improvement of same, and you will answer the questions regarding same that I will ask you.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, [137]. This we have had here before.
3. Now, we find that the physical forces in the body are much different from those as we have had here before, and that the general condition is that of the improvement, while we find still the indiscretions within the physical and mental forces of the body bring about that in the physical being that causes that of worry or of presentiments, as it were, of impending physical conditions hanging over same that would be very detrimental to the entity's carrying out those conditions that the entity would DESIRE to for itself and those about same. Most of these indiscretions rise from within, from the lack of the proper attention to the using of any diet for the body UNDER stress and strain. There has been given, as has been seen, those elements that the entity should use as diets - yet discretion should be used in taking food into the system - for, under stress or strain, or excitement, or anger, or worry, is only to bring just that same element into the general physical make-up of the body, for well has it been said, the being becomes that upon which it (the being) feeds. Not LITERALLY may this be taken, as WORDS sound, but literally this is true, that the being taking on as much worry with the food eaten as of food certainly becomes the nervous wreck, for this is assimilated into the being as much as or more than physical assimilation can give - for in the mental forces this is true, that upon which the body, the body mental mind feeds, that mind becomes. That mind being always at an unrest, finds that its assimilation and that its digestion of questions of any mental intent or purpose, or purport, becomes that upon which it has fed, and its activity or manifesting of same is the result of not being stable in purport and in intent.
4. In the physical forces of the body, then, we find there has been the lack of the assimilation necessary for the full proper rebuilding of the body in that of the full blood stream. The body finds that from time to time there are seemingly those conditions, or those foods, that do not agree with the body. At another period these may agree. Then, we find the entity's physical action should be rather as this towards foods of EVERY nature - and, as has been given for the body, there is within the entity that which will guide, impel, direct, harbor, feed, and give insight, better than has been given to many, or to but few, as has been given to this entity.
5. Rather not that as is forced by others, but let self choose that it will take to sate or satisfy the physical appetite, and the entity will find by so doing this appetite, this physical being, will be not only satisfied, but builded up.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Give specifically what this body should NOT eat.
   (A) That that the appetite does not crave or desire at the time the appetite is to be satisfied, WHATEVER it may be. Eat whatever the appetite should crave, does crave, and when the body has set itself, mentally and physically, in the state of taking on food for sustenance and for rebuilding, it will build for this body.
8. (Q) Give specifically what this body should not eat in excess.
   (A) Nothing. NOTHING should ever be eaten to excess by this body. That that satisfies, in meat and in drink, and what the body feels that the BODY craves, and WHEN the body likes - for, as has been given, there is seen there are those physical conditions of which the entity has been warned, as respecting those conditions regarding the physical being of the entity, as respect to assimilation and elimination, as respecting the blood rebuilding, or that of an anemic condition - that also of a sugar, or of a condition as regarding the activities of the kidneys.
9. Now the body has reached that condition in its physical being, in its mental being, wherein, if the entity will lay aside that of "Who can tell me better than myself what my body will require?" For the entity itself, if the entity will reason from within, will assimilate that as is necessary for the rebuilding and for the keeping in the best physical forces, and the entity - not abusing same - will find same building to the best.
10. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 137-86 on 7-21-26.

REPORTS

1. 2/22/27 He obtained another Ck. Physical - 137-94.
2. GD's note: 10/18/52 Dr. D. H. Fogel, M.D., heart specialist, in studying above rdg., said he would index it under: EMOTION AND EATING.

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