Doing a juice cleanse – we’ve all heard about them, some of us have tried them, some of us think what the…?
I’ve done a few juice cleanses myself, we actually offered them at my retreats in Ibiza, and they were hugely popular. Mostly to lose weight as that is a nice “side-effect” but also to release toxins.
Right now I’m on day 2 of a 10 day juice cleanse with http://realnaturo.com/ here in Ibiza. The lovely Chloe, a naturopath is guiding a group through a 10-day cleanse.
And today, I feel awful. My head’s pounding, I don’t know if I’m coming or going and I feel wobbly. So why do it?
I love to do a juice cleanse for a number of reasons:
1. I really believe the Chiropractic philosophy: the power that creates the body, heals the body
Meaning that we all have innate power to heal our body. Your body does this naturally when left to it’s own devices. Think for a moment when you cut yourself and the body heals it, all by itself. So by doing a juice cleanse, you are freeing up your body energy from digestion to actually healing itself. It gets all that lovely energy (about 30% of energy is used on digestion) to heal yourself. And after doing quite a few cleanses now I can see this – my eyes are brighter, my nails are stronger, I feel more full of vitality.
2. Your body stores your toxins… in your fat
Think about our environment that we live in – it’s full of toxins. From pollution in the air that we breath, to the processed foods (even additives put in natural foods), alcohol we drink & chemical creams we put on our skin. These load up our system as even though as body intelligence is amazing, it’s simply not made to take up this amount of toxins. And so your body is so magnificent that to protect you from these toxins – it wraps the toxins in a fat cell to protect your liver.
So, if you want to lose weight and you can’t… it could be because you have too many toxins in your body. Your body wants to let go of the weight but it can’t as it’s trying to protect your liver from the toxins. So if you want to lose weight, my bet is that you need to detoxify first.
3. Your body stores your toxic emotions in your tissues
Da-da-dah… your body stores all your memories that you are not ready to let go of yet in your tissues. And this is why I love Thought Field Therapy to tap out that toxicity from the body (more of how to do that in my “Have the confidence to create your wonderful life training HERE). So detoxing, and especially a juice cleanse, also helps you to process these feelings and let go of the ones no longer serving you.
This is why I love to recommend a detox to some my clients that have been through a big shake up – it really helps to release all the sh*t that we have been storing in our bodies.
So despite the normal detoxing effects, I am continuing with my juice cleanse and afterwards, I can’t wait to feel lighter, brighter and full of vitality. Back to my own natural radiant state.
Tell me what do you think about detoxing and especially a juice cleanse?
Love Kelly
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