We took advantage of Bettina Network Hedge Schools and stayed at a house where we wanted to know the wife’s beauty secrets. \u00a0We’ve seen her for years and thought she was at most 60 years old. \u00a0When we discovered she was actually 79 we almost flipped out so we immediately made reservations and said in the process that we wanted to spend time talking with her about her lifestyle.<\/p>\n
We didn’t say we were going to share it and didn’t intend to, but it was so ‘out there’ that we just couldn’t resist. \u00a0And, sharing on Bettina’s Blog information about a Bettina family should not be forbidden.<\/p>\n
2. \u00a0OK! \u00a0Recovering from that we wanted to know more so we rose early – something difficult for us – and discovered she’d been up for hours. \u00a0Well, whatever affect that has we just left it alone because no beauty or youthful look is worth getting up at 3:30-4am. \u00a0She doesn’t say “youthful looking” by the way. \u00a0It is “looking healthy”. \u00a0Ageism, you know.<\/p>\n
3. \u00a0The first thing she does is have a cup of one organic lemon with the juice squeezed into a cup of very warm water and drinks it down like medicine. \u00a0I thought that was great and I could modify it a bit with the addition of sugar, but that was forbidden so I tried straight lemon juice. \u00a0Not bad, but it takes a lot of getting used to.<\/p>\n
4. \u00a0Then things got a bit rough. \u00a0No smoking – we don’t smoke so that’s alright. \u00a0No alcohol of any kind. \u00a0Well, what is wrong with alcohol, I protested. \u00a0It causes wrinkles, she said. \u00a0Well – this is not going to be the walk in the park I anticipated.<\/p>\n
5. \u00a0I searched the refrigerator and the food cabinets and found only organic foods. \u00a0No nothing else – \u00a0even the spices and coffees and teas were organic – everything was organic. \u00a0Water was in a pitcher with a filter and she apologized because she didn’t know how to get purer water.<\/p>\n
This is going to take time – especially since that means also – no prepared foods even if they say organic and no gluten free prepared foods – they are just as bad as everything else. \u00a0So as I re-searched the refrigerator – looking at things on a different level, everything was food – real, unprocessed, food “the way it comes from its creator”.<\/p>\n
Now that to me was impossible, there must be cheating someplace here, \u00a0so I watched closely and they ate only those real foods. \u00a0Milk, eggs, butter, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers (which were actually there for beauty reasons rather than food for eating) chicken, beef, lamb – all organic products. \u00a0Oh, this is going to be hard. \u00a0Her response was – this has to be a lifestyle that you feel is good, right and easy. \u00a0Oh, and the bread – organic whole wheat flour and home baked – if they haven’t had time to bake bread, you get fresh out of the oven biscuits. \u00a0One day we even had croissants. \u00a0Those were several days in the making because she doesn’t have that much time to bake croissants straight through.<\/p>\n
I was amazed – this was better eating than I’d done in years and watching a cake being made while breakfast was being prepared was amazing. \u00a0The cake took maybe ten minutes total to be prepared to put in the oven. \u00a0More time processing – for example – she put sugar (organic turbinado) in the mixer with organic butter and let it beat for what seemed like forever. \u00a0She ignored it until she had time to add the rest of the ingredients with a little more beating and then into the prepared pans for baking. \u00a0I am going to try this because it is 1-2-3-4 and even I can remember those ingredients. \u00a0Even when I can’t remember what is one cup and what is three cups – common sense gets into the mix and I know one cup must be butter because we want butter to be the least of the ingredients and two cups must be sugar because we want medium sweet and three cups must be flour and four must be eggs.<\/p>\n
6. Exercise is a part of her day. \u00a0But – and this is a big but – I exercise daily, jog, etc. but that is not a part of this exercise regime. \u00a0She exercises parts of the body I don’t even think need exercising – your eyes for example (and she wears no glasses at 79 years old), and your toes, and your fingers. \u00a0No jogging, she’s never liked that and the incredible exercises I do she thinks is a waste of time and energy. \u00a0She suggested I wash the walls, or shampoo the rug or do some gardening outside in the sun without sunscreen.<\/p>\n
7. \u00a0Make-up doesn’t exist. \u00a0Vitamins are the skin care products – vitamin A, E, liquid C and for those aches and pains a good soaking in organic apple cider vinegar switched off with epsom salts.<\/p>\n
I could go on because that is the tip of the ice berg. \u00a0However, I should say, since I left I understand this is not hard at all. \u00a0It takes re-doing your lifestyle and ignoring what the cosmetic and other marketeers have trained us to think is absolute, essential and all the money spent on such is going to result in results.’ \u00a0I knew that last part wasn’t true – I spend about $200\/ month on cosmetics and at 57 I look older than my host family looks spending money only on foods.<\/p>\n
Her biggest health purifier comes from the fact that she hasn’t been to a doctor in over 50 years and doesn’t expect to see one any time soon. Right thinking – giving to others – being aware of the messages your body gives out – those are the things important in that Bettina Hedge School.<\/p>\n
Totally the reverse of everything I was ever taught.<\/p>\n
Thanks for the experience. \u00a0It is one I will never forget.<\/p>\n
Bettina Hedge Schools rock. \u00a0I am not sure where I am going next, but I think living with a classical pianist for a few days while I go to meetings, etc. to give her time to do her thing without me hanging around, sounds like a good deal for both of us.<\/p>\n
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