Kaleah’s Health Blog

Last night I attended a Yoga class down at my local gym and it was a great workout.  I went earlier in the day and sat in the infrared sauna for 30 minutes.  These are things I committed to doing for myself before I decided to do the juice feast.  I came home and my husband was making Kale chips, my favorite.  Not that he was trying to tempt me but we went to the organic farm last week and it was their last week of the season, so we came home with this big box of Kale.  Kale chips had been a huge staple in my diet being that I was mostly eating raw food.  But now I need to juice my kale.  So while smelling the kale chips seasoning in the dehydrator I made a juice of mostly kale, carrot, garlic, cayenne pepper, and sea salt.  Wow was it ever strong.  A little too much!  But I drank it slowly and decided that was definitely not a favorite. 

Last night while trying to sleep I could feel the energy pulsing through my veins.  I was both tired and wired at the same time.  Probably not a good idea to drink so much juice that late at night.

So this morning I got up and drank a glass of water with a teaspoon of MSM as suggested by juicefeasting.com.  Except they suggest taking a tablespoon or more of the MSM.  I’m not ready for that yet.  I did about fifteen minutes of yoga and then got my rebounder out of the garage and put it in the solarium where I rebounded for about twenty minutes with my two dogs and cat looking on.  I then poured myself a cup of Yerba Mate tea and went to work. 

The first few days are always the most challenging when I juice.  I have to get used to the part where my stomach tells me it thinks its hungry.  I answer with “want some juice?”  And it proceeds to give me a few suggestions of what it would rather have…kale chips, dehydrated apples and bananas, raw carrot cake.  Its all good stuff!  But not juice!  So we go back and forth and I remind that part of myself that really isn’t into the fasting that there is a reason for this.  We are doing it for our health and well being.  “just think” I tell myself “this will make you feel stronger, look younger, get rid of that itchy rashy thing going on around your neck, give you a deeper spiritual experience, and all around more energy.  Most of all it is a deep detox!  After six months of eating 95% raw, you need to go the next level to assist your body with that detoxing journey!”

So I encourage myself to keep going and get beyond the discomfort of denying myself solid food. 

I had John take a “before” photo of me last night.  I wished I had him take one six months ago before I re-committed to raw food.  I would have liked to see the difference.  I won’t post it for a while though.  Because at this point, I don’t know how long I’m going for.  I know I set out to fast while my CD is in manufacturing.  It is a way of celebrating the CD’s completion after a year long journey and help me to get clear about how I want to introduce it to the world.  Yes, I know, I have a strange way of celebrating! 

Right now, it is only the beginning!  But after a week or so the effects of juice feasting will be in full swing.  So for now I just need to get over this hump.  It is the beginners hump that always prevents me from ever starting.  My last fast was the first of January so I’ve gone nearly nine months without a fast.  Although I had intended to fast again last March, I went raw instead.  Something I knew in my body, mind and spirit that I needed to return to.  I had gone a full year back in 2004 100% raw and loved it!  It was an emotional crisis that caused me to stop and although I’ve eaten a lot of raw food since that time I had never stayed committed until this time.  Now that I’ve done six months I can’t foresee going back to a cooked food lifestyle. 

The interesting thing about being high raw is that I’m not having the results I had last time when I went raw for a year.  I didn’t lose so much weight, maybe just a little, but I’m really not overweight to begin with.  It is either because I’m menopausal, or that I’ve eaten s much raw for the past five years that I’ve detoxed a lot already.  Time will tell.  But for now…I think I’ll have some juice!

After the completion of my “Emergence” CD I have decided to go on a juice feast until the CD arrives from manufacturing. I have several boxes of good organic apples, carrots and kale, which will be the staple for the feast.

My reasons for juicing are both physical and spiritual.  Even though I have been eating high raw for six months I am still having physical issues that seem to be a sign of toxicity.   So I need to up the challenge.   On a spiritual note I am getting clear about the launch of my CD and what that will involve.

Juice feasting is much easier than most fasts in that whenever I am hungry I just have another juice. I tend to add about a half glass of water to my juice. I started this morning with about three apples, four carrots and a cup of kale diluted with half glass of water. I did have a bit of dehydrated fruit this a.m. I didn’t wake up intending to fast but knew I was wanting to start one soon. Today just seemed like the right day to start. So off I go.

Louise Hay in her book “You Can Heal Your Life” says that incurable means “to cure from within.”  When a medical doctor gives us a diagnosis we have a tendency in our culture to give that diagnosis far too much power.   We hear words like inoperable, incurable, no treatment available and come to believe that there is nothing that can be done about our condition.  That is far from the truth!

The truth is we have the power within us to do great things and overcome sometimes even the worst predictions.  Those who have been told they only have a few months to live have gone on and had complete cures.  Those with inoperable tumors have miraculously seen their tumors disappear without a trace.  Those who have been told they will never walk again, walk out of the hospital.  Those who are told they will have to take medication for the rest of their lives get off medication completely and go on to live healthy, drug free lives.

Doctors have been trained in the Medical Mindset.  They are Medicine Specialists.  They are not Health Specialists.  Yet so many put their health in the hands of the Medical Practitioner alone.  I’m not saying not to see a Medical Doctor or not to take Pharmaceutical drugs.  I am saying you must take charge of your own health and realize the limitations of your doctors. 

What your doctors can’t do, perhaps God can, or a higher power, or force that resides within you. 

When I was in Hypnotherapy school I learned how the mental impressions made by a doctor telling a patient he only has six months to live was actually the reason the patient only lived for six months.  The patient believed so strongly in the diagnosis given by this authority figure that his subconscious mind was programmed for only six months of life. 

Our belief systems are truly what create our reality.  If we believe our condition can’t be cured, then it won’t be.  If we believe we will never walk again, or die in six months, then we will surely have that fate.  But what happens if we make another decision for ourselves?  What if we decide we will live our lives in perfect health?

If we make a decision to live our lives in perfect health and take the necessary action to restore our bodies, we will see a powerful change taking place.  We will automatically be guided to the kind of treatment that benefits us.  We will find ourselves drawn to eating certain foods or taking certain supplements.  We may find ourselves meditating, doing conscious breathing exercises, detoxifying, fasting, cleansing, exercising and seeking alternative therapies. 

We are limited only by our beliefs.  Lift the lid on what you believe is possible and expect a miracle in your life!  Expect to see positive results!  Expect a complete cure or recovery!  Do what is necessary from within and you will find that incurable takes on a whole new meaning in your life!