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DETOXING
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What You Need to Know
and How to Avoid the
Pitfalls
Detoxing is an essential
skill for maintaining and improving your
health.
Learn how to do it safely and you'll improve your
health, otherwise you could end up much
sicker!
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Why should you learn
how to DETOX?
Learning how to detox your body is
one simple skill you can learn that can improve your health
in major ways,
including:
- decreasing
puffiness,
- clearing of brain
fog,
- diminishing achiness in
joints,
- increased
vitality,
- clearer skin,
- better resistance to colds, flu, and
infections,
- reduction in sluggish
colon,
- reduced stiffness on
awakening,
- lower
irritability,
- declining cholesterol
levels,
- less gas and
bloating,
- fewer sensitivities to allergens,
and
- reduction in
weight.
What is DETOXING
do - why do you need it?
All these seemingly magical results are
obtained by putting your body into its discharge mode.
This is the process through which your body rids itself
of accumulations of all descriptions: mucus, congestion,
extra fats, toxins, chemicals and decaying matter.
Just as your household has a need for you to collect up,
take out, carry away and dispose of the garbage, so
your body needs regular times to do the
same.
What are the
consequences of failing to
DETOX?
If you don't arrange times for your
body to discharge, your inner garbage collects in
your cells, creating stiffness and heaviness,
overloading your immune system's ability to keep
things clean.
Then, when you least expect it, at
some inconvenient time, your body succumbs to the
attack of all these collected free radicals and
decides to go into discharge mode
anyway.
Instead of enjoying that Holiday party
you'd been looking forward to, that vacation for
which you paid so dearly, you spend your time in
bed. 'I have a cold," you say, or, "I have the
flu - there is a lot of it going
around."
But really, your body has determined
that, like it or not, cleaning your internal house
takes precedence over any other agenda. "It
can't be helped," you might think. But that
would be untrue because you can take charge of the
process, carrying it out in smaller increments that
don't cause symptoms.
How does a
regular DETOX schedule help prevent colds and the
flu?
Regular detoxing is how you
support your body to keep up with it's healthy need to
discharge, and that means you're lowering the likelihood
that you'll be sideswiped by unwelcome visits of pain and
achiness, fatigue, swollen joints and
congestion.
And the less
you keep up with it, the more likely you'll be knocked down
when "the flu's going around." Why? Because you
have allowed your body to become a walking environment
where bugs love to grow and
multiply.
After all, the
role of 'bugs' in the ecological system of the world is to
prepare things to return to the earth. And in
allowing your body to become toxic, you have become the
proverbial living, breathing swamp: warm, moist, dark, and
full of rich, decaying matter to feed
on.
"Well," you
might say, "my immune system should take care of
this." And if your immune system could talk, it would
likely reply, "I've been doing my best, and I can only do
so much. Give me a break!"
Detoxing via
the body's discharge channels is the way your immune system
gets that break.
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"The best
way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and
depend upon it's own
mechanisms."
Andrew Weil, M.D.
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Ten Top Tips to Support a
Regular'
Discharge
Mode'
So that your
body can detox routinely, use
thefollowing ways to "give it a break" and
put your body in discharge mode:
1. Avoid eating in the 2 - 3 hour time period just before
bed. Your body goes on a discharge cycle while you sleep,
and if you've eaten, you've interfered with that cycle
because you are requiring it to assimilate, a function it
has a hard time doing during
sleep.
2. Add down
time to your schedule. While you rest,
recuperate, read that novel, watch that sunset, your
body can catch up with some cleaning chores.
3. Slowly,
constantly diminish your intake of things that gunk up
your body: white sugar, refined foods of any kind
including white bread and pastas, heavy intake of
dairy, alcohol, coffee, trans fats such as those found
in margarine and fast foods, especially those that are
fried.
4. Increase your
intake of real, organic fruits and vegetables (but
not the canned ones with all the heavy syrup
added!)
5. Including some
juices is fine, but first, read the labels and avoid
those with chemicals of any kind or high fructose corn
syrup. Best of all, make your own
juices.
6. Cook your
vegetables less; steam them lightly.
7. If you are a
woman, your body naturally goes on a discharge cycle.
during your period. Take advantage of that time
to eat more lightly. If you are a man, you can plan
regular intervals to eat more
lightly.
8. The times
all bodies -male or female -
naturally want to discharge are the 7 days
immediately before the two solstices and
equinoxes. Get out your calendar now and mark
those days "detox time."
9. Elson Haas,
M.D., author of The Detox Diet, says that for most
Westerners, switching your diet to fruits, vegetables,
rice and a protein source will allow your body
to start playing catch-up with its cleaning chores and
allow you to continue your regular daily
schedule.
10. Undertake more
intensive cleansing programs, including fasting, only
under the care of a knowledgeable health care
practitioner. Check with her or him to help you
assess what your body can currently
tolerate.
Why? Because you
can't safely go from a state of nutritional
inadequacy, heavy toxicity and severe medical diseases
to maximum discharge mode without causing more
problems. Do what is best for you, with
your unique body in your unique
situation.
"Spiritual progress is
like detoxification. Things have to come up in
order to be released. Once we have asked to be
healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the
surface."
Marianne
Williamson
HOW NOT TO
DETOX:
The
detoxification process is a powerful one and
should be treated with the greatest respect.
General, mild body detoxification processes can
usually be undertaken in complete safety without
the services of a qualified health professional;
however attempting more than that on your own can
cause big problems. For
example:
A
young man had been experimenting with some
substances that were not good for him.
Happily, he figured that out and decided to take
steps to cleanse his body and recover his
health. Great, so far. However, he
made a big mistake and undertook a powerful gall
bladder cleansing procedure on his own without
effective help and ended up in the
hospital.
Turns out his
gall bladder contained some stones, and when he
pushed his bile production in the cleansing
process, the stones were pushed into his bile
duct, blocking it, creating an infection and
requiring antibiotics and
surgery.
Detox
Options:
If you started searching
on your own, you'd find a huge variety of detox
options, some of them products, some programs, some
both. You'll find detox recipes, detox foods,
juice detoxes such as cranberry or lemon juice, water
fasting, detox foods, 3 day detoxes; 21 day detoxes,
raw food detoxes and on and
on.
That's
another reason to work with a qualified professional for any
but the simplest detox processes - to help you sort through the
myriad of ways to cleanse your body and find what's right for
you. And even at that, the choice you make now may not be
the right one for you later. It all depends on the state
of your body at the time.
For example, if
you were fighting an infection, you'd need lots of good quality
protein to aid your recovery, so undertaking some variety of
juice fast (a very low protein choice) would actually work
against you.
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