Juice Feast Day 7

I decided to ‘break’ my feast yesterday at the end of day 7 of my juice feast. I am extremely proud of myself for making it this long!  I broke my feast at dinner time. I set the table beautifully and lit some lovely candles to make a little ritual out of my first real meal in one week. I enjoyed a small salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and jicama dressed with a few avocado slices, hemp oil, and lemon juice. It was about half the size of the usual salad I frequently eat as a entree for dinner pre-feast, but I still could not finish it.  As a former member of the clean plate club, I was surprised to see myself putting down my fork and sacrificing the rest of the salad to the garbage drain. I attribute this new super power to the habit changing nature of juice feasting. I focused on savoring and chewing thoroughly each and every little tasty morsal. My heart was also very happy to be sharing a meal with my sweet, so supportive husband.

I chose to break the feast because I needed a mental and physical break from juicing. I was experiencing juice fatigue in terms of feeling overwhelmed with constantly making juice and feeling I had to be tied to my juicer all the time. Further, I was feeling very ungrounded and having blood sugar control problems causing a lot of hunger. I plan to hire a juice feasting consultant or go to a place like the tree of life rejuvenation center to have even more support in healing specific physical ailments such as blood sugar imbalance and lyme disease…although I know that I have made huge headway into healing both on my own at home.

My BIGGEST lesson that I learned from my mini juice feast was that my most significant hurdle to healing from disease was letting go of my addiction to suffering. I had gotten so used to suffering that I realized I was holding on to the sub-conscious belief that I do not want to heal, that on some level it is not safe.  I am so used to suffering it has become my modus operandi and somewhat comfortable, like a old stinky and moldy blanket a child carries around as a pacifier. This addiction was the true core of my food addiction and even my difficulty in releasing lyme’s disease from my body.

All the new detox practices I was doing this past week went against my status quo of suffering, and brought resistance kicking and screaming to the surface. I know the longer I practice acts of self-love, the harder it will be to maintain these beliefs and the homestatis of my being will shift towards more and more joy. Because, darn it, I am worth it! We all are. And I saw and felt the shift happen last week.

So many of us with chronic illness have been told we are not really ill, but have some sort of psychological problem and are just trying to get attention. I can’t tell you how much that irked me, because I have had more than one doc tell me that. Those docs were on to something though. My body was trying to get my attention, but it took me many years of study to learn to de-code its messages. The juice feast helped me become much more fluent in the language of my body and honor its incredible ability to heal itself when I removed  the poisons (toxic beliefs, toxic thoughts, toxic behaviors, toxic food) and let it do its thing.

My studies and personal experience have taught me I must find a way to access the wisdom of my body, and in doing so I will heal myself on all levels. This is why I loved the globaljuicefeasting.com program, because it was a truly holistic, or integral, experience and thus allowed me to access the wisdom of my body, mind, and spirit.

Here are the integral life practices from my juice feast I will continue post-feast:

• A minimum of one quart of green all veggie juice a day
• Maintain a high green/high raw diet
• Daily body brushing before my morning shower
• Drinking 1qt water with 1/2 lemon & 1teaspoon MSM powder upon rising
• Minimum 30 minutes a day of walking outside, preferable hiking in nature
• Regular colon cleansing via enemas as needed and once a week colon hydrotherapy
• Far Infrared Sauna 1-2X/week
• Frequent Blogging to share with others my experience!
• Reading daily from one of the books or documents from globaljuicefeasting.com
• Doing detox/nutritional coaching with anyone in my life who asks for it:)

Short list of benefits from my 1 week of juice feasting and 2nd liver/gallbladder stones:

• My clothes fit much better, jeans that were tight Monday and are very comfortable now.
• I lost one inch from my waist, approx. 6lbs, and 1% body fat.
• I released 100′s of vitality-robbing liver stones
• I gained great insight into the root cause of my illness and a the path out of suffering
• Greatly increased my energy levels and mental clarity
• Greatly increased feeling of vitality
• Hair appears shinier and thicker
• Skin appears more ‘glowy’, firm, and smooth throughout entire body
• Am writing more on my blog and ready again to work with clients
• Feel much more connected to nature, a long-time goal of mine
• Released huge amounts of toxic sludge from my digestive system working towards goal of healing up leaky gut even further

Wow! Quite the list!  This is just my 7 day juice feast list, I can’t imagine the transformation possible if I did it for 30, 60, or even 92 days!!!

I am signing off, my heart full of gratitude for all the beings in the universe that made it possible for me to feast on life and juice last week.

Daniela