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What to expect
when you improve your diet & begin cleansing:
As you move toward
a better nutritional program, you will be incorporating
more foods that are closer to the natural state.
These foods are higher in enzymes, vitamins &
minerals, & are capable of reproducing healthy
tissues. In addition, you will be omitting harmful
substances such as sugar, coffee, white flour,
tobacco, etc.
Now, what happens
when a person starts following a program of this
type? When we abandon lower quality foods &
replace them with more nutritious foods, the body
happily begins to discard the lower grade materials
in favor of the new superior ones available. The
body, in its drive to survive, always aims for
health & balance.
As you can well
imagine, this process does not always slip by
without repercussions. First of all, your body
becomes accustomed to stimulants like sugar, coffee,
tea & colas. When these substances are discontinued,
your body starts to release toxins from the tissues
into the blood, heading toward eventual elimination.
Sometimes these irritants leave, "kicking
& screaming". You can experience what
seems to be, "the blues", as the heart
calms down & evens out to its normal level,
verses an artificially stimulated level.
The same process
occurs as we begin to cleanse. During the initial
phase, from ten days to several weeks, the vital
energies that are usually in the periphery or
external part of the body such as the muscles
& skin, begin to move in towards the vital
internal organs to start reconstruction. This
shifting of energy to the internal region produces
a feeling of less energy in the muscles &
we interpret this as weakening. Actually you may
be increasing energy but are just using it for
rebuilding so it is less available for muscle
work. As this is a regeneration time, more rest
& sleep may be needed. Pushing yourself will
only defeat your body's effort to stop 'living
from paycheck to paycheck', so to speak, &
start building equity in it's vital energy. Remember,
it's not necessarily less energy as much as temporarily
redirected energy. Have patience & coast along
until this phase passes.
As one further
improves the diet & cleanses even more, the
body may also begin a process called 'retracing'.
This can be compared to the LIFO, (last in, first
out), accounting method. In other words, your
body starts dumping out all the old poisons &
garbage, (from food, pollutants & stress),
starting with the last assaults. Your body is
not particularly choosy about how this is done.
It is just thrilled for the opportunity &
may utilize some unusual methods to accomplish
its housecleaning. For example people who have
past tendencies towards skin rashes & eruptions
frequently will eliminate poisons through the
skin with brand new rashes & eruptions. Also
colds & flu, which have not appeared for a
long time, may occur. Other symptoms include:
bowel sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, lack
of interest in exercise, nervousness, irritability,
depression & frequent urination.
In general, the
harder your body has been pushed in the past,
the more drastic the cleaning process. The great
majority of people, however, find their reactions
more than tolerable because of the many improvements
they experience at the same time.
Do not expect
that you are riding on an ascending escalator
to health. Instead, expect gradual changes. The
body is cyclical in nature & health returns
in a series of gradually diminishing cycles. For
example you start the diet & feel great for
awhile, but after a few weeks you suddenly feel
nauseous for a day & have foul smelling stools.
After 24 hours you feel much better & all
is wonderful for a time. Abruptly, you seem to
come down with flu symptoms. In a few days that
improves & you feel like a million dollars.
Eventually, you will hopefully reach a plateau
of vibrant health. This is the goal. Smile through
it knowing that good health is just around the
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