Detoxification & The Master Cleanse: Day Five
To Laxative Or Not. That Is The Question…
Earlier…
food food food food food food I don’t care what food food food food food food OMG it’s everywhere! food food food food food food food food food food food first time I’ve really thought about food on this fast food food food food I want to eat food food food now food eat food food food not so bothered by the sight of food or the smell of food food food food just can’t food food food stop food food food thinking food food food about it food food food food you get my point food food food I want food food food I want to food food stop thinking about food food food………….
Thank God.
It passed.
Later…
Still got a headache. Very slight and is right at the back of my skull at the centre of the bit where the spine meets it. When I press the divet there my head feels better.
I’m very sensitive to smells today, very alive in present in my nose and my nasal cavities and feel like I’m being filled up with smell! It’s like I’ve got a bionic nose – I can smell the soap on people’s skin from a normal conversational distance!
I’ve also very sensitive to expressions of anger – I saw several parents yelling at their kids today and I just wanted run away. It felt like physical violence to me merely watching and listening to them. Normally I am quite sensitive to raised voices and emotional outbursts of anger but today I’m a fragile bunny with no defenses. I am a receiver with big antennas coming out of my mind and my heart picking up everything around me.
Saying that though, I feel extraordinarily clear with no anxiety, worry or negative thoughts at all.
My usual filters are completely gone. I am naked. I am ultra aware of everything, very clear vision, extremely tuned in to the rhythm and pulse of life happening all around and inside me. It’s all coming in and there’s so much magnificence to be aware of!
On another note, I’ve been looking into laxatives – some of the research I’ve been doing is telling me about how important it is to keep my bowels moving. I’m having a similar experience now like I had with my 40 day fast – just nothing moving down there at all! No discomfort or bloating – just NOTHING happening! (I’ve never used a laxative in my life! Just lucky I guess…) I bought some laxative tea from the health food shop today because the salt water is not doing what it’s supposed to be doing (salt and epsom salt in particular is a smooth muscle relaxant and is a traditional cure for constipation).
I’m a bit unsure about the whole laxative thing – there seems to be 2 main arguments:
- When the body is fasting or in detoxification mode we are producing waste products that are being eliminated through our lungs, skin, kidneys, liver and colon. If you’re colon is not moving of it’s own accord, you must make it move either by laxatives (even the word makes me want to poo!), enemas or colonic cleansing of some kind. This fast was originally designed to include a litre or so of warm water with sea salt in it to bring on a number one. Usually of course, the consumption of dietary fibre keeps us regular but when you’re not consuming anything at all, there’s no fibre to encourage a dump (eeek! Sorry if that’s a little crass!)
- Fasting is a 100% natural and instinctive process to restore health. The body is infinitely wise and all-knowing. If your body is not producing a bowel movement by itself of it’s own accord it knows what it is doing and will restore normal functioning when it is ready and when it is right. The more organic, trusting of natural processes and avoiding of man-made intervention the better. (This has been my personal view on creating vibrant health for quite a while now. However you can take this a bit far and I’ve learned how to listen to my body but take action when necessary the hard way)
One of the best examples I can give of taking point number 2 a little too far is with physical pain – I used to avoid all medication based pain killers entirely even when in extreme pain (lying awake in hospital for days unable to sleep with a spiral, compound fracture, 7 screws and a metal plate in my leg because I didn’t want to self-administer morphine, curled up in a ball rocking and crying because of extreme menstrual cramps, feeling like a failure when I’ve taken pain medicine, judging others harshly for reverting to panadol without even trying some lavender on the temples of some deep breathing, writhing in pain while attempting to give myself electro-acupuncture in a dentists chair while he removed one of my wisdom teeth and so on…). To state the obvious this is not the route to peace of mind and happiness. Western medicine is incredible in that it has the ability to quickly and easily alleviate severe pain. To make myself feel better about using it, I made up a rule – if the physical pain I am in is making me feel emotional / moody / grumpy / angry at others etc. I will take medication. Simple.
Anyway, back to laxative tea. I’m gonna give it a whirl. I’ll let you know how it goes (in quite probably excruciatingly precise detail…)