Are Detox Programs Good For Your Body?

People come to my clinic and say, "I want to do a detox."

"Okay," I say. "We need to start with oil massage and get you into the steam box."

They look startled. They were expecting be to given a bunch of herbs and laxatives to flush out their colon. After the initial shock, they ask, "Do I have to rest? Do I have to reduce my other activities? This looks like it's going to take up some time."

The Reality of Healing the Body

Next thing, they find themselves at the front desk, scheduling their life to slow down-- just a little bit. What the heck is so important about that person's life that they can't take a few days off to oil themselves and relax?

The mentality is really destructive.

Today, the "detox craze" shows no sign of eliminating itself. People expect a week's downing of detox pills to make up for months of unbalanced living.

Are You Going Against a Natural Sense of What Feels Good?

People are taking these bentonite cleanses. Yes, they do feel better for a few days (once it's all over). But it was so difficult, uncomfortable and against the natural sense of what feels good they don't do it again. Sure a few colon cleansing champions proudly keep up the regimen. The rest talk about doing it but don't.

The UK online journal Science About Science did a press release, this time last year, recommending people forget about detoxing. UK's leading scientists and clinicians said: "Save your money: have a glass of tap water, a turkey salad and a good night's sleep!"

Now, I don't agree with much of what they conclude, but they do make a lot of good points. Not only do most of those store bought cleansing kits provide little long term results... Yes, it makes you have a lot more bowel movements (or just plain diarrhea). In the process, though, they also dry the bowels out. If your colon is dry and worn out, how easy will it be to clean out toxins?

Another good point made by those UK scientists was that to recover from holiday-feasting, plenty of water, rest and fresh air can do wonders. All of these, of course, require you slow down and take it easy. Combined with a balancing diet, oil massage and sauna (see page 77 of my Effortless Ayurvedic Living Guide - free to all subscribers of my ezine), you will experience not a "detoxification" but a purification. Not just physically, but mentally and spiritually.

Modern Detox Versus Ayurvedic Purification

It's no secret that most of these modern detox diets are unpleasant. It's quite unlike an Ayurvedic Purification Program. We purify by using natural oils to lubricate the brain, the eye tissue, the sac around the heart... Detox diets tend to dry the system out. In the process they get rid of toxins, yes, but in the process damage tissue.

I've done all these other programs. The water fasts. The juice fasts. The pysllium husk fasts. I knows what it's like. They don't have the same level of deep comfort from the inside out that I experience with Ayurvedic Purification.

I think everybody who's tried conventional detox diets know the kind of tinny vibration that goes through you. Your nerves are jangled for the entire program. Most of these detox-in-a-box kits ask that you keep it up for three consecutive months! And they don't afford time to prepare the body with oil, sauna and massage.

It's So Limited And Ridiculous

The ancients lived in a slow world. They lived in a world of texture and senses. They related to the body like nobody was in a hurry. They stayed with it until relaxed, until it felt its own grace again.

People today are really just being sold out of impulsive curiosity. It's a huge consumer movement. I'm not trying to accuse anybody. But I've found no comparison to when you apply the simple, loving approach of Ayurvedic Purification.

Ayurvedic Purification wants to help induce your connection with yourself. Purify the body, revitalize the body. Reconnect all your nadis and chakras, so everything feels contained inside. It generates a sense of power from the inside out. Especially if you are a vata or pitta -- you'll experience a lubricated, grounded, invincible feeling.

Toxins Distort Your Relationship With Yourself

When I first discovered this Ayurvedic technique, I received emotional, psychic and spiritual healing. I was filled with a desire to do good things for myself. I learned how toxins distort my relationship with myself. All kinds of levels got addressed and healed.

In order to truly purify, we need to slow down (if only for a weekend) and devote time to balancing ourselves. A simple detox diet every few months isn't going to have much effect on your life. The BBC completed a study last week called Does Detox Work?

They brought ten party animals to a cottage retreat. Five of them were fed -- what the reporter called -- a "balanced diet" of red meat, alcohol, coffee, tea, pasta, bread, chocolate and crisps. The other five were junk free.

The article reported: "After testing the kidney and liver functions and measuring the antioxidant and aluminum levels in their blood we found there were no differences between the groups."

Hardly a perfect experiment, but it does illustrate my point. You need to truly slow down and focus on the reality of healing your body. A detox box or a one week cleansing diet is not enough.

Purifying Power of Daily Oil Massage

If all you do is experience the purifying power of daily oil massage, you'll be far, far better of than the best of the best "Master Cleansers." I'd encourage you to read Chapter 3 of my A-Z Guide to Healing Techniques from Ancient India (a free gift to all subscribers to my ezine). If all I ever accomplish from my work is convincing a few million people doing daily oil massage, I'll be more than content.

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Dr. Helen Thomas, Ayurvedic Practitioner:Since 1987 Dr. Helen Thomas, D.C., has treated thousands of patients, both in America and India, on a daily basis, with the 3,000 year old science of Ayurvedic medicine.

Dr. Helen has pored over the ancient texts and worked side-by-side with Ayurveda practitioners. Over a decade ago, Dr. Helen started paying Ayurvedic doctors from India to come and work with her in her clinic.

Her knowledge comes from hands on experience, not theory given to her in school.

Many of her patients have been moved to tears after receiving an Ayurvedic assessment from Dr. Helen. Ayurveda helped them understand themselves, their needs and their stresses, more profoundly than ever before.

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Why You Need to Cleanse Your Internal Body

Once a year and even better, twice a year you should do a 3-7 day colon cleanse using fruits, vegetables, and their juices. This type of cleanse not only cleanses the colon but helps to remove toxins from the body and cleanse the blood.

This type of cleanse is one of the first steps to take when you have decided that you want good health. It is the type of cleanse you should do when you fall ill to any disease as simple as constant mucus flow, skin eruptions or to a deadly disease such as cancer. A colon and blood cleanse pulls toxins out of your individual cells, blood stream, stomach, small intestines, colon, and out of the various organs. When you have toxins in your blood and in your colon, it is hard for the toxins in your cells and lymph liquid to move out quickly into your blood to be neutralized and eliminated by your liver and kidney.

So why is your body not able to completely remove body toxins from your body naturally? You body is constantly removing toxins by your channels of elimination- kidney, colon, lungs, skin, and liver. However, when you are ingesting so many toxins from the air, water, food, and emotions, your body is overwhelmed and can not process all those toxins out of your body. So they end up accumulating in your body and result in inflammation and mucus throughout your body.

When your colon is overworked and filled with toxins, your body will eliminate body toxins through the other channels of elimination. Toxins will go to the kidney, lungs, liver, and skin. These other channels can become overwhelm if the toxins sent to them are too much. When toxins stay too long in these channels of elimination they cause inflammation, disease and sluggish function in these channels.

The toxins in your cells and in the lymph liquid can give rise to an acidic environment, which leading to an acid body, cancer and other debilitating diseases. The accumulation of toxic matter in your body gives rise to congestion, such as mucus accumulation in your nose, sinus, throat, chest, lymph, and lungs. And this congestion is reflected in conditions such as sinus problems, bronchitis, colitis, asthma, acne, eczema, hives and many other skin disorders.

Disease is mostly a result of toxic matter inside your body created by eating unnatural food and thinking unnatural thoughts. But then again, disease is caused by feelings and thoughts because you chose what you are going to eat by the way you feel and the thoughts that you have. Anxiety also causes toxic chemicals that affect your body functions.

Doing a colon cleanse using natural foods, which move quickly through your body, such as fruits, vegetables and their juices, is the best way to cleanse your body. The nutrients in these foods help you neutralize many body toxins and help cleanse your blood.

Also, the seven day colon cleanse helps to removes hardened waste or mucus that accumulates along the colon walls, removes excess mucus from your body, gives you a feeling of well being, and improves your immune system. There are to0 many health pluses not to do a colon cleanse using fruits and vegetables.

Rudy Silva, Nutritionist, has written a popular, affordable, e-report on how to do a colon and blood cleanse using fruits, vegetables, and natural remedies. To learn more about this process, go to: http://www.coloncleanse.for--you.com

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