Fasting is the quickest way of bringing about the elimination of toxic materials from the body.
Fasting is a simple, quick and effective way to cleanse the body and promote healing from illness and disease.
Fasting has been known for thousands of years as practise of maintaining good health; promoting healing is the sick and preventing illness in the healthy.
Accumulated waste (be it through poor diet, medication, pollution, stress…) throughout the system is the root-cause or foundation of all illness and dis-ease.
Lowered vitality, lack of energy or strength, seemingly minor ailments of all kinds; are signs that there is a problem somewhere in the body.
Many people are afraid of fasting; this is often due to a lack of understanding of the practise. Fasting can take many forms and varying durations, depending on the individual and the goal(s) set out to be achieved.
During a fast, no solid food is eaten – but liquids can be consumed in as large a quantity is desired or necessary. Liquids can include raw fruit and vegetable juices – ideally freshly squeezed since they lose many of their valuable vitamins, minerals, trace elements and enzymes within minutes of being prepared. Herbal teas(caffeine free) and plenty of room temperature water also available.
Providing you have a full and correct understanding of the process; a fast can last for many days. For others, fasting can simply mean skipping a meal or two.
Consider that if you were to miss dinner, go to bed early, have water, herbal tea or juice for breakfast, and then eat a sensible lunch - you will have fasted for almost 24hrs!
In doing so you are literally giving your digestive system a rest – taking the foot off the accelerator and cruising for a while. This will help to prevent ‘burning out the engine’. Just as a distance runner alters their pace to conserve energy in between bursts of speed; so too your digestive system requires periods of lower activity in order to maintain optimum performance.
The bowel has the poorest nerve structure of any organ in the body, and thus cannot easily signal any problems. If the heart is beating too fast we rest. If breathing becomes strained we rest. If limbs being to tire we rest. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind; the digestive system is treated with indifference and ignorance to the constant state of work, activation and stress in which it is forced to perform throughout our entire lives.
Remember that to nourish the vital functions of your body, you need proper nutrition - not masses of substance. High levels of easily assimilated nutrients are more than available in freshly squeezed juices. In cases where doubt or recommendation suggest that you should not fast; vitamin-rich vegetable broths or even soft fruits could still constitute an element of fasting. The point is to remove some bulk so that your body can work on the accumulated matter that is already in the system.
Benefits of fasting include:
During extended fasting, the body literally lives off itself. It burns up and digests its own tissues – STARTING WITH THOSE THAT ARE DIS-EASED, OLD, DAMAGED OR DEAD.
The process of building new, healthy cells – a constant state in life – is speeded up.
The body’s elimination channels (lungs, liver, kidneys and skin) process more waste – masses of toxins are removed.
Aches and pains, morning stiffness and lethargy are reduced.
Mental clarity is increased.
BREAKING/ENDING A FAST IS AN IMPORTANT STAGE OF THE PROCESS!
A sensible re-integration of eating is vital. Common sense should prevail – it is obviously not a good idea to drop beer and burgers into your freshly cleaned stomach and intestines.
The level of care required will vary depending on the specifics of each individuals fasting process. Those with little or no previous experience should always seek information and advice before beginning a fast. That said; skipping dinner once a week might be a sensible place to start your experience of this ancient, deliberate and perfect practise.
Life is good, enjoy x
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Cell - Regeneration of...
“All cure starts from within out, from the head down, and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared.” - Herings Law of Cure.
Modern science and medicine has achieved great advances in understanding the molecular structure of life. Technological advances have provided medications and surgical procedures that prolong life and relieve symptoms. Yet;
These discoveries can only support the body’s own inherent intelligence and ability to reconstruct itself.
Every minute millions of cells are dying and millions more being reborn. The body creates 2.5 billion red blood cells per second! With in 11 months not a single cell that is in the body today (except for brain cells) will still be there.
Yet this miraculous process requires the right conditions in which to operate or else it will begin to slow and stop – death. Dr. Alexis Carroll of the ‘Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research’ performed remarkable experiments to show that under stable conditions, cells could live for a very long time – if not indefinitely. He observed that;
“The cell is immortal, it is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cell something on which to feed and, so far as we know, the pulsation of life my go on forever”.
Our cells are alive. The human body; made up of some 100 trillion cells, begins as a single cell consisting of three parts – the membrane (outer wall), which houses the nucleus (brain) and cytoplasm (inner environment). Nutrients that pass through the membrane are metabolized and converted to energy to fuel the function of the cell. As with any energetic transfer, a waste product is produced that must be allowed to pass back out for removal from the body. Any impairment in the membranes ability to let nutrients in or waste out will result in the death of the cell, our most basic unit of life.
When we eat we are putting our organism to work. Every single aspect; from buying, preparing, chewing, digesting and eliminating costs us energy. Modern society has invented substances to preserve the shelf-life, colour and fragrance of food using laboratory chemicals that cannot be processed by our cells and thus accumulate as toxins and waste.
Poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples illness, disability and dis-ease. Auto-intoxication (creating a toxic state) places a burden on the ability of every organ in the body to function.
Years ago we realized that many of man’s diseases came from lack of sanitation. We allowed urine and faeces to travel through the streets until underground sewers were invented to take away harmful waste – in London this led to Bubonic Plague. The Colon acts as our body’s elimination channel or sewer. Just as a power failure in a cities sewerage system would result in a back-up and blockage that would quickly lead to a sanitation problem, so too any problems in the colons ability to eliminate waste immediately causes health issues. A power failure can be likened to the lack of energy supplied to our digestive system when the foods we eat are nutritionally deficient and artificially preserved.
Industrialized nations in the West have by far the largest numbers of bowel related disorders in the world. The major contributing factor is their straying away from simple, natural lifestyles. In particular it is found that the food situation in these countries is far removed from traditional growing practise. Economic factors totally overrule other considerations in food production. Foods are hybridized to promote higher yields, meet process and harvest requirements and have cost effective shelf-lives. Processed, pre-cooked and preserved foods do not react well in the human body.
Just as a car cannot run on anything other than petrol, the digestive system simply cannot process non-foods.
As a result of poor food conditions, the body is not able to gain proper nutrition and so is not supplied with the fuel it needs to counter the effects of the energetic expenditure used when we eat. A downward spiral begins whereby…
The colon begins to get backed-up; waste material sits around longer, beginning to putrefy and decay. Extra energy is then required to eliminate the extra waste, but it is not supplied by the nutrient deficient foods we are taking in. Accumulation becomes the breading ground for unhealthy bacteria’s that begins to poison the system and become absorbed into the blood stream for damaging distribution to the rest of the body.
Constipation:
To attempt to take care of any symptom in the body without a good elimination channel is futile. Last year, laxative sales in the US were conservatively placed at $350 million! Constipation is the clogging-up of the large intestine (colon). A build-up of mucus around the bowel wall narrows the passage through which faeces can pass through. A dirty bowel harbours a wide variety of bacteria and parasites.
Intestinal constipation leads to cellular constipation, increasing the workload of the body’s other excretory (discharge) organs – the kidneys, skin, liver, lungs and lymph. As the functioning of these organs becomes depleted; cellular metabolism (energetic conversion) becomes depleted, repair and growth are delayed and the ability to eliminate waste is lowered. The cells, rather than being alive and active, become dead and inactive. This process results in the functional ability of tissues and organs being dangerously decreased.
Medication and anti-biotics have devastating effects on beneficial intestinal flora. Laxatives are irritant and tire out the bowel muscles by keeping it constantly working. Low water consumption leads to dehydration which causes tissues (groups of cells) and fluids to thicken and become sticky, hindering movement of faeces. Lack of movement or exercise fails to tone and massage the digestive system causing it to become sluggish and lazy. Over time we become lethargic and have less energy to fight off ailments.
Relating this to the current medical condition of my mother, I have begun to educate her on ways and means to improve her diet, and introduced her to some of the physical practices of yoga in order that she strengthen and tone her internal organs.
I believe that by encouraging her system to rid itself of years of accumulated toxicity caused by medication and poor food choices, she will begin to experience a marked improvement in the symptoms of her diagnosed dis-order. Observations will be reported at a later stage.
The contents of this report were adapted from the work of Susana L. Belen and Dr. Bernard Jensen.
In Love and Light x
Modern science and medicine has achieved great advances in understanding the molecular structure of life. Technological advances have provided medications and surgical procedures that prolong life and relieve symptoms. Yet;
These discoveries can only support the body’s own inherent intelligence and ability to reconstruct itself.
Every minute millions of cells are dying and millions more being reborn. The body creates 2.5 billion red blood cells per second! With in 11 months not a single cell that is in the body today (except for brain cells) will still be there.
Yet this miraculous process requires the right conditions in which to operate or else it will begin to slow and stop – death. Dr. Alexis Carroll of the ‘Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research’ performed remarkable experiments to show that under stable conditions, cells could live for a very long time – if not indefinitely. He observed that;
“The cell is immortal, it is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cell something on which to feed and, so far as we know, the pulsation of life my go on forever”.
Our cells are alive. The human body; made up of some 100 trillion cells, begins as a single cell consisting of three parts – the membrane (outer wall), which houses the nucleus (brain) and cytoplasm (inner environment). Nutrients that pass through the membrane are metabolized and converted to energy to fuel the function of the cell. As with any energetic transfer, a waste product is produced that must be allowed to pass back out for removal from the body. Any impairment in the membranes ability to let nutrients in or waste out will result in the death of the cell, our most basic unit of life.
When we eat we are putting our organism to work. Every single aspect; from buying, preparing, chewing, digesting and eliminating costs us energy. Modern society has invented substances to preserve the shelf-life, colour and fragrance of food using laboratory chemicals that cannot be processed by our cells and thus accumulate as toxins and waste.
Poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples illness, disability and dis-ease. Auto-intoxication (creating a toxic state) places a burden on the ability of every organ in the body to function.
Years ago we realized that many of man’s diseases came from lack of sanitation. We allowed urine and faeces to travel through the streets until underground sewers were invented to take away harmful waste – in London this led to Bubonic Plague. The Colon acts as our body’s elimination channel or sewer. Just as a power failure in a cities sewerage system would result in a back-up and blockage that would quickly lead to a sanitation problem, so too any problems in the colons ability to eliminate waste immediately causes health issues. A power failure can be likened to the lack of energy supplied to our digestive system when the foods we eat are nutritionally deficient and artificially preserved.
Industrialized nations in the West have by far the largest numbers of bowel related disorders in the world. The major contributing factor is their straying away from simple, natural lifestyles. In particular it is found that the food situation in these countries is far removed from traditional growing practise. Economic factors totally overrule other considerations in food production. Foods are hybridized to promote higher yields, meet process and harvest requirements and have cost effective shelf-lives. Processed, pre-cooked and preserved foods do not react well in the human body.
Just as a car cannot run on anything other than petrol, the digestive system simply cannot process non-foods.
As a result of poor food conditions, the body is not able to gain proper nutrition and so is not supplied with the fuel it needs to counter the effects of the energetic expenditure used when we eat. A downward spiral begins whereby…
The colon begins to get backed-up; waste material sits around longer, beginning to putrefy and decay. Extra energy is then required to eliminate the extra waste, but it is not supplied by the nutrient deficient foods we are taking in. Accumulation becomes the breading ground for unhealthy bacteria’s that begins to poison the system and become absorbed into the blood stream for damaging distribution to the rest of the body.
Constipation:
To attempt to take care of any symptom in the body without a good elimination channel is futile. Last year, laxative sales in the US were conservatively placed at $350 million! Constipation is the clogging-up of the large intestine (colon). A build-up of mucus around the bowel wall narrows the passage through which faeces can pass through. A dirty bowel harbours a wide variety of bacteria and parasites.
Intestinal constipation leads to cellular constipation, increasing the workload of the body’s other excretory (discharge) organs – the kidneys, skin, liver, lungs and lymph. As the functioning of these organs becomes depleted; cellular metabolism (energetic conversion) becomes depleted, repair and growth are delayed and the ability to eliminate waste is lowered. The cells, rather than being alive and active, become dead and inactive. This process results in the functional ability of tissues and organs being dangerously decreased.
Medication and anti-biotics have devastating effects on beneficial intestinal flora. Laxatives are irritant and tire out the bowel muscles by keeping it constantly working. Low water consumption leads to dehydration which causes tissues (groups of cells) and fluids to thicken and become sticky, hindering movement of faeces. Lack of movement or exercise fails to tone and massage the digestive system causing it to become sluggish and lazy. Over time we become lethargic and have less energy to fight off ailments.
Relating this to the current medical condition of my mother, I have begun to educate her on ways and means to improve her diet, and introduced her to some of the physical practices of yoga in order that she strengthen and tone her internal organs.
I believe that by encouraging her system to rid itself of years of accumulated toxicity caused by medication and poor food choices, she will begin to experience a marked improvement in the symptoms of her diagnosed dis-order. Observations will be reported at a later stage.
The contents of this report were adapted from the work of Susana L. Belen and Dr. Bernard Jensen.
In Love and Light x
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