Day 2 of the Master Cleanse

So far so good.  I'm sure anyone that will ever do this will be surprised the same.  You are actually not hungry on this thing.  I thought for sure I would be in the throes of hunger pangs by now, but alas nope.  You just drink the lemonade concoction and go about your merry day.  I think the only side effect i've felt has been a psychological/emotional one.  I've been supremely lazy.  And bored, not wanting to do anything.  But I don't think that's the lemonade's fault.  I think it's my history coming back at me.  Before I met Jimmy (who has truly stabilized me in so many ways) I would tend to get to my days off, and then just not do anything with them. But I wanted to do things, I just wouldn't.  It was I guess one of my emotional issues.  A few other things might be helping this to reoccur.  He is gone in Kentucky for three weeks.  And this is day two of no coffee, so I imagine that has to be affecting me some way. So far only minimal headaches, hardly even worth mentioning!  I thought for sure I would have a throbbing head as well.  It has been yucky rainy all day no sunshine, which generally just has me lounging around.  I read somewhere that the next day these feelings will pass.  I wonder if my boredom will pass tomorrow.  To a large extent I had prepared myself for these two days, and didn't think I would be functioning well.  I am functioning great!  This cleanse is to rid your body of excess built up toxins.  I'm still debating on whether I should do the salt water flush tonight or tomorrow morning.  I think I'm gonna keep doing them at night.  I hope it's as effective this way.  I would just be worried I wouldn't wake up early enough, and then all day I would regret not having done it at night.  I think the only thing i'm craving right now is a banana.  I'll have to blog about how much weight I lose, I can tell you I will definitely lose some.  And I'm not doing this to lose weight.  I just felt like I needed it.  And have wanted to do it for a long time.  Oh and like i blogged before.  All signs pointed to YES.  so i took the plunge.  It's funny but I had convinced myself when I signed up committing to it, that It would only be lemonade for 3 days.  After I started the ease in, i realized that i had been fooling myself and that this is a 10 day commitment.  And I feel committed.  The lemonade is so easy to drink.  I hope day three goes as smoothly as I am back to work for saturday and sunday.  I just feel like rambling.  

It's very exciting my sister is getting married.  I reckon I will be getting married soon too.  Then we can plan together, or at least discuss our big days!  It's gonna be great :) 

The Master Cleanse: part 2 : achilles heel

So the author and creator of the Master cleanse tried to help a man with terminal cancer.  He ended up dying, and all of his methods were to no avail.  Stanley Burroughs, the author, healer and creator went to jail.  The achilles heel of Stanley Burroughs was his pride "the love of one's own excellence.  The way it works with cleansing, your body must rid itself of the toxins and disease it has acquired.  We have a fever because our body is trying to heal us.  So with this unfortunate case, at every step Stanley must have believed whole-heartedly that this man would live.  There was just too much disease for him to triumph back to life.  And Stanley never called it.  His pride got in the way.   Doctors can kill, by lack of information, pharmaceuticals, surgery.  But they're "authorized" to kill.  A man can be a healer.  And If he kills one man, he goes to jail. 

http://healthandlight.com/TheMasterCleanse.pdf

the man might be on the fringe, but he's closer to a real healer, than any doctor i've ever met. 

Tonight, is my feast of vegetables.  Spring Mix with tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, eggplant, zucchini, corn, green peppers, and i'm sure something i'm forgetting.  And forget the dressing.  This is the prelude for what is to come.

b.t.w. real blueberry pomogranate juice by Knudsen is the Bomb!  

Tommorow I start the master cleanse.  

p.s. looks like we might be playing a show in june.  at the redline hookah bar.

the master cleanse, doctors, pride, and common sense: part 1

Today I began my first day easing into the master cleanse that I will begin on Thursday.  I've contemplated doing this for a long time.  I've always felt weak of will, and so it didn't happen.  But now i'm ready.  A few friends were gearing themselves up or were doing it right now.  Jimmy left today to go to the Kentucky Derby.  Hopefully to make some money.  I have been doing more meditation, and have been reaching deeper levels within myself.  Oftentimes I open a book to a random page to see what wisdom the universe may have for me.  It was my beautiful illustrated rumi book, and it opened to this.

There's a hidden sweetness

in the stomach's emptiness.

We are lutes, no more, no less.  

If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.

If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting,

every moment a new song comes out of the fire.

The fog clears, and a new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you.

Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.

Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.

When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should,

a ugly metal statue in place of the Kaaba.

When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help.

Fasting is Soloman's ring.  

Don't give it some illusion and lose your power.

But even if you've lost all will and control,

they come back to you when you fast, like soldiers appearing out of the ground,

pennants flying above them.

A table descends to your tents,

Jesus's table.

Expect to see it, when you fast, this table

spread with other food better

than the broth of cabbages.

So for me, yea that was the first sign.  Next I went to go read a little bit about the master cleanse.  I stumbled upon themastercleanse.org (hard not too, it was first on google)

Here I found that lots of other people were doing the cleanse together and sharing the experience.  And they were starting on Monday, Today.  I read this yesterday.  Not only that, but after a few days of ease-in, the lemonade part starts on Thursday.  Thursday was the exact day I was thinking I needed to start it, since those are my days off, and easiest to deal with the side effects of the cleanse.  So that was enough.  My wisdom over time, is realizing I only have to pay attention to the cues and signs to know the way.   

I decided to break this up into different parts.  In coming days I will explore..  

My experience with doctors.  

The unfortunate circumstances of Stanley Burroughs Achilles Heel.

The most unfortunate tragedy of the simple, pure and true, being traded for the complicated, fabricated, and false modern deception to satisfy namely one desire.  Greed. 

To Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

p.s. they can't stop us all.