Q & A's multiple cleanses

How healthy is it?.... and at what intervals, should one do multiple fasts, or multiple cleanses?

My qualified suggestion would be to stay attuned and conscious of your body and spirit during and after each fast.

Do not proceed to another cleansing fast prior to that feeling of "my body is healthy enough, and has elevated itself appropriately since the last fast." At that point one can begin to plan another cleansing program.

My personal experience has been usually waiting 5 weeks before commencing a new round of cleansing with colenema's. The shortest period I have waited was 5 days, the longest almost eight months.

These suggestions pertain only to the course of your cleansing program. Fasting is not a life-time profession, and it should not become a form of addiction, or some kind of a new crutch.

 

How many days should one continue the cleansing program & fasting programs?

Most of the credible programs all discuss a minimum of 7 days for a general cleanse- that includes fasting and colenema's.

Specific organ cleansing could be as short as 3 weeks and as long as 4-5 months. Usually specific organ cleansing & re-balancing will always incorporate a herbal strengthening program. The more advanced programs will also incorporate chee-gung (breathing) exercises, stretching/yoga/meditation and herbal steam baths.

I usually do 12-14 day cleansing programs (fasts with colenemas), two or three times per year. Each program is usually never more than 14.

Even though I have met many people who do 15, 30 and even 60 day cleansing programs once or twice a year, I prefer to adhere to the time consuming, proven way of 14 day cleansing programs. 

My reasoning is simple. It's taken a lifetime of accumulating "all the junk" in my insides, so I don't expect to clear it out in a few days or weeks. I have prepared myself to gradually change my being and view it as a process. The duration of the cleansing process per say should take years. The results, right from the first step, are almost consistently great. That fact motivates and encourages people to cleanse again.

Can I do my fasting and cleansing programs by myself at home?

Yes, you can, but please get professional support to help you during and after your fast. Fasting without professional support can be hazardous to your health.

It is advisable to do your first cleanse in a controlled healthy environment under the guidance of experienced Master Fasters. You benefit by sharing with them and other fasters "the experience". Cleansing takes place both on a physical and emotional level. Having other like minded people around you facilitates your openness and awareness and lends support to your cleanse.

Once you've participated in a 7 day fast with internal cleansing in a supervised environment, you should have a good understanding of the fundamentals and the basic procedures.

From there, it's only a question of compromising with the most optimal conditions you desire for your cleanse. If you want to do a fast at home, you'll need the herbs and other supplements, plus of course a colenema board. Filtered preferably distilled clean water is preferable. It is also highly recommended that you set up a "cleansing support" group, both professionally and emotionally.

As you've already learnt, fasting and internal cleansing its all pretty basic and simple. That realization always almost generates the puzzlement of why isn't everyone on the planet doing cleanses with colenema's all the time?

This is a cost effective preventive therapy routine. It couldn't be easier...like getting your teeth cleaned every six months at the dentist, or having your car maintenance done at the garage every 3,500 Kilometers, or packing the old winter clothes and bringing out to the glorious sunshine the spring attire... The only major difference is that YOU ARE the mechanic or the dentist, and your actions of taking personal self responsibility for your health will thrust you into an ascending positive spiral of rejuvenation and vibrant health.

You can do your fasts at home, even while you work, the only question that arises in our minds was- is that the best place environment to do them in? Honesty becomes paramount in your life.

I have done most of my serious fasting in very controlled environments, Ko-Samui island, Thailand. Good air, good people, good support, good spirits and great healthy food for nourishing my body after the cleanses. I consistently devoted myself only to one thing, cleansing my body.

Such an approach was very conducive to the effectiveness of the cleaning processes- both physically, emotionally and spiritually. Good friends who have done follow-up fasts on their own at their homes tend to agree, that its not as beneficial as when doing it at a fasting retreat. The environment, the support and the professional guidance/insights are missing when you do a fast at your home alone. . But again, it can be done at home if you like. My suggestion is to do your fasts in an environment where other people are doing them. That way you have the support of the group to share your experiences with. Obviously also , it is logical to deduce that there are certain power spots/locations on the planet that are more beneficial to you and your fasting than other locations. Certain times of the year are more beneficial than others.

In summary, do your cleansing fasts where you can get good support and professional advice. Tons of questions are going to arise during each fast, and you will need all the advice and support you can get to optimize your fast. If you can not find the time or the money to go to a fasting resort/retreat than you can do a cleansing fast alone at your home. Seek good local support or register with an E-Fasting service to assist you electronically. Remember, fasting without support can be hazardous to your health.

 

 

What comes out when you do a colenema? What is a colenema?

A good analog for a colenema, is taking a hose and washing down your car. Basically you are doing the same thing when you do a colenema; you are taking a hose and washing the insides of your piping- specifically your colon. Imagine how great it looks after washing down the underside of your muddy car. Once you've sprayed the underside, any improvement seems monumental compared to what was.

Fasting and colenema's do that to your insides. Monumental change that is not cosmetic, but continual, substantial and enduring. Once you wash away the toxins that were lying in your gut, your body now has heaps of new energy that isn't being applied. Previously, that same energy was being used to contain the toxins. Imagine a hundred thousand men, each with a finger in a dam, plugging closed the spot the is about to leak. When the dam is repaired and not leaking, those 100,000 men are now un-employed. Your body has a similar amount of energy now un-employed. It immediately, begins to re-deploy it in more positive ways- for healing instead of containment, for growth instead of stagnation, for development instead of despair.

What comes out is the foulest smelling, dirtiest looking, black crud that has been sitting and rotting in your body for too many years! Not everything you eat is digested and then excreted from the body. Review internal cleansing and Trophology; the science of food combining for more detailed information. Even better yet, buy Dan Reids book, The Tao of Health Sex and Longevity to really learn what it is all about. Available on line right now. That book is like a bible. You will open it up and read a paragraph or a page or a chapter or a full section, put it down and sometime again in the future, start all over again. There is so much in the book to radically improve your well being that it really is phenomenal.

Did you drop loads of 'massive stuff' on your second and third fasts?

Yes, to be quite frank I did. Even I was surprised by the amounts, considering my previous lifestyle, age and habits.

Actually, all the way up to my 100 th day which is the equivalent of over 2,000 liters of water that was flushed through my colon, or approximately five 10 day fasts, massive amounts of the foulest looking and smelling, soft and hard, mucus and feces, were excreted from my body. This excretion primarily took place from my small and large intestines, but also gall bladder stones were dropped in mass during my 5 and 6th fast. In addition I dropped large amounts of lymph on my second and third fasts, probably because only then were the ducts that lead into the colon free from impacted mucus on the colon walls, so as to allow passage of this waster product into the colon for elimination.

It is just disgusting to think that all that refuge was sitting and rotting within my body. That disgust, initially served as the key motivation for me wanting to do a second fast.

What do you do between fasts?

The period between fasts is the most important part of any cleansing program. Good nutrition and as healthy an environment as possible, are critical to the success of the "healing process". We will discuss shortly what a healing crises is, how to recognize one and what steps to take during such a crisis.

In between fasts, I spend a lot of energy eating correctly as per the instructions in the food trophology section of this website, exercising daily- be it 2-5 kilometer walks on the beach, Tai Chi or Yoga. I prefer exercising in the afternoons, even though I am quite aware that the chi is much more stronger in the mornings and that yang energy starts to wane by mid afternoon.

I almost daily do the 5 Tibetan rights exercise in the morning after a 30 to 45 minutes of slow enjoyable stretching sessions that usually commence within 15 minutes from waking up. First order of the day after waking is a bowel movement. You will be able over time, to deduce the functioning of your body by the quality of your bowel movements. Every morning, I'm down "there" poking & sniffing around, to get a better grasp on the food assimilation processes and toxicity of my body.

I also use the time in between fasts to either strengthen the colon or alternatively, to work seriously on another internal organ. Usually 2 to 3 times a year on the kidneys, 2-3 times a year on the liver, and the other 6-8 months once only on a specific organ or meridian. This year, 1997 is the 'Year of the Pancreas'. Last year was the kidney's. Next year probably the liver or lungs. Who knows. I don't plan these things as that is detrimental to the whole process of listening and staying in tune to your body and your needs. This constant listening helps develop stronger powers of awareness, that when constructively applied to other practices such as meditation or yoga for example, can be very beneficial.

In short, I make a lot of effort to assist my body in strengthening and rejuvenating. It's a very conscious effort. Sometimes a struggle, other times utter delight. Of course, I am aware that still much more could be done if I had the time and finances.

What happens during each fast? Is it only physical or also emotional cleansing?

Each fast is different than the previous one. The rule of thumb seems to be that each one gets easier than the previous one...but there are the exceptions. Many times one seven day session is insufficient to remove the refuse of that particular session, and one needs to return again, so as to "wrap things up, to tidy things up for the next fast".

Regarding the experiences one has, they differ from fast to fast. The nature of the cleansing programs are such that one almost never feels hungry. The herbs plus the psyllium husk seeds powder taken 7 times daily with fresh fruit juices create a feeling of fullness. Neither the mind, nor the body, craves for food.

Physically, during the first few fasts, during the first few days, one sometimes feels weak or fatigued. This is attributed to the large amount of toxins which are being dropped into the bloodstream for cleansing from the body...and that's a good sign. It's encouraging to know that the program is working. the worst you feel the happier you should be- because it's working.

Usually, by the fourth or fifth day one really starts to begin to feel spectacular...and by the 7 or eight day one really feels great; energetic, confident, and vibrant. The most enjoyable part of this feeling/experience, is the fact that one begins to recognize that these feelings are not a temporary relief from the past, but are the beginnings of an ascending "upward spiral" that will continue for many months to come. That realization takes the great leap forward to 'years', once one commences on a program of multiple fasts.

With serious attention to your new found knowledge, e.g., cleansing techniques, correct eating habits, stress reduction through meditation and other methods, herbal supplements, and exercise, you will attain a much more enjoyable sphere and dimension of existence. Your being will expand to encompass more of the positive light that surrounds and impregnates each one of us.

 

What exactly is a healing crisis?

Understanding healing crises, is one of the keys to understanding what's happening to you, both on a physical plain and an emotional one, during and after each fast.

The most important aspect of fasting, and the most least understood, is the aspect of healing and healing crisis's. Dr. Bernard Jensen sums it up well in his books where he stresses that what's important for elevating your good health is not the fasting/cleansing "diets" , but the nurturing and healing of body and soul that takes place after the cleanse.

Once you've started to remove the "accumulated toxins in your body" that we discussed above, your body is now prepared to start healing itself. In effect, the removal of these impacted toxins from your body means that it can divert the energy that it devoted to containing these toxins towards other purposes- those being healing the internal organs. It can more efficiently use that energy as it doesn't need to use it for containing the toxins.

Dr. Bernard Jensen, the great bowel and cleansing nutritionist discusses in his book 'Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management' in detail healing crises and Herrings Law:

"As you have built up conditions in the body through foods, pollution, overwork, enervation, lifestyle, etc., we have to learn our lesson and go back over them and relive them, so to speak. You can expect all of those problems to return as you get well!....

We find that 'Herring's Law of Cure' appears in the reversal process as healing takes place. In this process the body eliminates iatrogenic symptoms and diseases, those things caused by treatments that were suppressive in nature and usually involved a drug of some kind."

I can not stress enough the wisdom of this teaching.

After you begin to cleanse your body you will go through many healing crisis's. Recognize them for what they are...do not run to your doctor and take medication that will end up only supressing them. If you understand that your mind and body somehow retain a complete recognition of every cold, illness and cut you've ever experienced, and that now, it is strong enough to heal it in a healthy manner, even though many years have past since it seemingly was healed, you will be way ahead in the game. I know it sounds strange but believe me its true. Somehow the body and mind retain every bit of information about your physical and mental health, it's all logged deep in the vault. Now that you have started to physically remove the toxins from your body, your body and mind in conjunction are ready to use that energy to completely eliminate the previous dis-eases from your existence.

Can you describe some of your own healing crises?

My own personal healing crises are already now in the hundreds. I'm so happy each time I experience one as I know and recognize it now as an old friend, helping me out along my way.

Initially after my first and second cleansing the healing crises would start to appear only weeks after the cleansing and sometimes last a week or two, other times days. By my sixth and seventh cleanse I started getting healing crises continuously, almost immediately after the fasting....and the minute one would end, within days a new one would start. You can imagine what a pain in the ass this was, but nonetheless I was happy that they were taking place. I recognized by then that my body was so healthy that it didn't need to rest weeks before beginning another crisis. It was strong enough to immediately begin elevating me further. What a lucky fellow I am.

The body will only go into a healing crises when it recognizes that it is healthy enough to deal with it. It's a way of the body saying to you: "look I'm stronger than I've ever been before, so I want to throw off some of the old 'stories' we've been carrying around for years." The body jettisons some old baggage, and this consequently means that it becomes even healthier. Each time this happens the body has more capacity to heal further, a kind of never ending upward spiral. I hope I've gotten the point across how this process takes place. REMEMBER HEALING CRISIS'S ARE GOD'S GIFT TO YOU FOR ALL THE EFFORT YOU HAVE MADE IN CLEANSING YOUR BEING.

As I mentioned above I've experienced to date hundreds of healing crisis's...and for sure there are more to come. Every dis-ease, cold, cut, problem that you've had in this life (and maybe even some form previous lives if you believe in that concept) will recur in the form of a healing crisis. Some of the more serious ones that I've experienced include:

* Pneumonia that I had as a child return after my fourth cleanse, but this time I new it was going to be gone for good! First thing I did was to get on the board and the flood of mucus that just wouldn't stop flowing from my nose and chest for days- stopped within 24 hours. The bowels and the lungs are paired organs; cleansing one rejuvenates the other.

* After my third cleanse, antibiotics that were given to me in injections in the buttocks started surfacing from my skin on the buttocks for 6 consecutive weeks. It looked and felt like tar. I couldn't believe it. The literature that the pharmaceutical companies give with the antibiotics claimed that it was washed out of the body within 24-48 hours. Well, that wasn't the truth. It was laying in the tissue of the buttocks for over 9 years!! But now, as my body was stronger and healthier, it could finally throw it off and out, once and for all. I kept the open wounds which were almost a 1/2 inch deep clean, put four or five times a day fresh aloe Vera on them that I cut from the plants in front of my house and ate everyday 10-15 cloves of fresh garlic to keep infection at bay. It worked. No infection, little scaring and best of all no more crude in my right buttock where the injections were given. Interesting enough, just to substantiate this for you, on my left buttock there was nothing. Completely normal...and the places where this stuff started oozing from was the centrifugal rings where the injections were given. It was so clear to me that it was shocking and amazing. I wanted to go show the doctor who gave me the injection 9 years ago what was happening. What good would that do? He too was being mislead by the traditional health authorities. He was part of the problem, not the solution.

* After my fourth cleanse, every scare or cut that I had in my lifetime, some over 20 years ago, suddenly opened and closed again. This time they closed with pearl white pure clean skin...and once healed the scars themselves disappeared too. Probably what happen was when they occurred my body and cells were not clean, but now the body was healthy enough to recognize that it was carrying around sick, dirty skin and decided to throw it out for good.

* Herpes was a problem I had prior to cleansing. During my second and third fasts I had tremendous outbreaks. Two more healing crises after that and since then they've become a thing of the past.

* Broken bones as a child in my arms, started to ache for weeks after my seventh fast- I assume that they were finally healing. I could feel the break, feel the pain inside the bone and feel the healing and new fusion that was taking place.

* My tonsils were removed as a child. After my eighth fast, for two weeks I had a healing crises. It felt as if someone just yesterday took the knife to my throat. The internal cut was prominently felt until it finally healed.

* Skin rashes that I had on my arms an face for years, disappeared completely after my second fast/cleanse. All of sudden, almost two years after I've been cleansing they reappeared again for two weeks. I knew this time that it was a healing crises, and sure enough I just left it alone. Within 5 days it was gone. I assume for good, forever.

* Just last month I started to get aches in my knees similar to the kind I had 15 years ago. Then they lasted for a few weeks and went away. I completely forgot about it, but when they started acting up last week, was I grateful. It took me awhile just to remember, that yes, 15 years ago I had a similar problem, but now I knew that the body was ripe for dealing with it and throwing it off for good. Whatever it was it's gone forever.

* Interesting enough, at about the same time I started to get an aching pain in my gut, the kind I had 14 years ago and stayed with me for years. I assume now, that the above knee problems were associated in some way with the gut problem, as it too lasted about 10 days and has now gone. Healed forever.

Folks, the list goes on and on. I'll try to update periodically so you can have reference but remember- don't supress your healing crisis's. Let them run their course. Your healthier now, after the cleansing then you've ever been in your life, so don't let fear get into your mind because again, there is no way you are getting ill- you're healthier now than ever before. Just recognize it as a healing crises.

Can we precipitate, encourage or slow down a healing crisis?

 My experience shows that the healing crisis's occur when the body is ready to deal with them, not when you think in your mind that you are ready. I also find that there is no chronological order. They don't start from the ones that you had when you were young and work their way up to the latest illnesses you had prior to cleansing. Also there don't seem to be any pattern of severity. Sometimes the crisis's are minor colds, aches and pains that you had a long time ago, and then boom, some major thing like pneumonia that you had only 4 years ago, and then boom some foolish little thing like a cut or pain again that occurred 10 years ago. It is quite amazing how random they seem, even though Herring's Law states that there is some orderly procession, from head down, from outside to inside.

One thing I find for sure after two years of healing crisis's. I am confident now that I can influence, to some degree, the healing crisis's.

I began to notice that whenever I started to feel great, like a superman, and relished- marveled in my good health, immediately after that, within a few days a healing crisis would begin and throw me back down. I began to notice this pattern more and more. I began to understand that whenever I was feeling so great, that was a sign to my body that it's ready to go to work and start healing again. Of course, who want's to fall down from the mountain top? So, once I recognized this I started in a sense to manipulate the healing crisis's in my mind. I stopped letting the mind go to these tremendous highs of feeling great and strive more for the middle path. "Not great- Not bad- Feeling OK... like I deserve to feel."

This more balanced approach has become a pattern and I have benefited from it greatly in all my activities. As regards healing crisis's sometime I think that because of this equilibrium of the mind, the crisis's are not anymore as severe as before...and I'm almost sure that in a few instances I held off the crises by just staying balanced in mind and spirit. Ultimately you must remember that the crisis will certainly come, but at least I began to think that we were partners now and not entities acting independently. Perhaps this was an emotional and mental healing process that needed to take place...a lesson of my life that I had to learn to deal with. At any rate I take advantage of this knowledge and use it now to my benefit.

I must note to you that I have never been able to bring a healing crisis on. I think that is very difficult to do...and I don't try to. I like the idea of letting things occur when they should and when the body is ready to deal with them. I don't mind holding a crisis at bay for a few days, if I can, but I am quite aware that the reprieve will only be a few days. If the body is strong enough to go into a healing crisis, it will no matter what I do or try.

Are there also emotional healing crisis's or are they only physical?

Yes, definitely. Next issue I'll deal with this issue in depth, specifically spontaneous emotional healing that always occurs unannounced and unexpected...

 

I've finished my cleanse (fast and colenema's), have been eating now for two days, and I still haven't had a normal bowel movement. Is this common?

Yes, definitely. For some people it takes a few days for all the "internal piping" to fill up substantially enough for peristalsis to kicked in and naturally cause an evacuation. Don't worry too much. You're amazingly clean "shit" is on the way. Take a close look at it when it comes out, for that's the way your bowel movements should look (and smell) all the time!

If your still worried, try taking a colenema bucket three or four days after you concluded the program and are back to eating. Sometime, as mucoid fecal matter keeps dropping, a stricture or blockage occurs. It's not serious, but sometimes that explains the lack of normal bowel movement.

It's important to recognize that by now, you've made some adjustments (hopefully) to your daily food intake and combining. This "realignment of your system" from more acid to more alkaline, has a double effect, particularly on this subject of "the first few bowel movements" after a fast.

Usually, by the third or fourth cleansing fast, there are very few obstructions left inside your colon to interfere with peristalsis kicking in immediately.

Furthermore, it has now been a few months of realigning your dietary intakes. After the third or fourth fast, peristalsis and most of your other elimination functions kick in involuntarily. And almost in immediately. Hugh bowel movements, the size of a a forearm in length and width are common. Once and even, twice or three times a day, depending of course on the amount of solid food intake.

 

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