Getting Started Cleansing
Do you want to feel great and look amazing? Then your body probably needs a Spring Cleaning!
- Cleansing can help you look and feel younger.
- Cleansing can help you lose weight.
- Cleansing will help to detox and energize your body.
- Cleansing is necessary when you want your body to function well and do its job in getting rid of disease.
The information here is for the do-it-yourselfer. Most things you can do for little cost and you can get started NOW.
We have compiled the most common cleanses you can do from your own home with easily-sourced items. An ultra-effective body cleanse does not have to come from a package or a box. In fact, H2O (clean water) is the easiest cleanse to start on. Just increase your water intake to 8 or more cups of water throughout the day. It is amazing what drinking more water will do for your body.
Understanding Detoxification
Detoxification is really a process of cleaning out sludge and garbage in the body, in order to aid healing. Crash detox can be dangerous, but done slowly and carefully, it can really help your body to get better. This article is an excerpt from “From Here To Longevity” by Dr. Mitra Ray, where she encourages us to listen to our body when we eat. She explains that the 2 main areas that benefit from detox are the immune system and the digestive system. And detox takes time. Enjoy this excerpt from Dr. Mitra Ray:
Cleansing for Beginners
The word cleanse means to remove dirt from, to free from dirt, and to purify.
Years of improper bowel habits, eating habits, and lack of exercise bring on diseases. When we cleanse out the garbage (with parasites and other invaders), we can begin to get energy, vitality and feel and look younger.
Two main factors affect our health are TOXICITY and DEFICIENCY. Toxic overload includes pollutants and parasites. Nutritional deficiencies are the nutrients your body is lacking.
The colon is really the body’s sewage system. If the sewer backs up, toxins become trapped, and are reabsorbed into the blood stream.
Symptom Check List
Complete this evaluation form immediately. It is important to have a baseline of how you felt when you started your cleansing and rebuilding activities, in order to see the changes in your health over time. Remember to update your symptom score sheet every two weeks. Put a 1, 2, 3 or 4 beside each item that describes your symptoms, using 1 for rare and 4 for constant
Date ________________________
SYMPTOM
- Allergies/Hay fever
- Bloated Feeling
- Blood Sugar Problems
- Body Odor
- Bowel Gas
- Cold Hands and Feet
- Constipation/Diarrhea
- Cuts and Bruises Heal Slowly
- Dental Problems
- Difficulty Getting Up in the Morning
- Difficulty Falling Asleep
- Drink Coffee/Tea/Pop
- Eye Problems – glasses, night vision, etc
- Feel Stressed Out
- Food Cravings
- Foot Pains
- Frequent Colds and Infections
- Frequently Take Pain Killers
- Fuzzy Thinking/Brain Fog
- Headaches/Migraines
- Heartburn/Indigestion
- Hemorrhoids
- High/Low Blood Pressure
- Joint Pain
- Infections
- Low Energy/Often Feel Tired
- Menstrual Cramps/Moody/PMS
- Moods of Depression/Anxiety
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- Muscle Cramps
- Night Sweats
- On Medication/Drugs
- Poor Concentration
- Shortness of Breath
- Skin Problems – Dry Itchy, Acne
- Varicose Veins
- Weak Bladder, Incontinence
- Weak Fingernails/Unhealthy hair
- Other ___________________________
How to Detoxify Your Home
You may not even realize it, but a silent killer could be right inside your home, under the kitchen sink, in the broom closet, in the bathroom and in our bedrooms.
The chemicals in the household products we buy in the grocery stores and pharmacies can actually slowly erode our immune system until our health is destroyed.
We must get serious about removing ALL harmful and toxic substances from our homes if we want to become healthy. You must clean up the poisons beginning right now. For more information on removing toxicity from your home, go HERE.
Here is a list of the toxins I removed from our home:
Signs & Symptoms of Toxicity
How do you know if your body is toxic? Or, how do you know if you could benefit from Cleansing?
You may not recognize the interesting possible signs and symptoms of toxicity in your body.
Toxicology textbooks list the first symptoms of chronic poisoning as low energy, fatigue, muscle weakness, inability to concentrate and intestinal complaints. These symptoms are virtually identical to those experienced by the chronically ill.– Jeffrey Bland, PhD, The 21-Day Rejuvenation Diet Program, p. 23
Some of the symptoms of toxicity you should look out for are:
