Detoxification & The Master Cleanse: Day Three
Human Potential
Still got a slight headache but there’s an amazing brightness and clarity in my brain. It feels like something kinda snapped (in a good way) in the centre of my brain – like a rubber band stretched to tension point then released. Nice.
Woke up bright as a button at 3.30 am – silent mind. For the first time in ages I could hear the beautiful sound of the wind in the trees outside louder than the thoughts in my mind. I was going to get up and start working or some other creative pursuit but conditioning won out (I should be asleep at this time! I’ll be really tired tomorrow if I get up now!) and I just lay in bed listening to the wind till I fell back asleep about 5 am or so.
I don’t think the majority of people realise how good it is possible to feel. I don’t think many have had an experience of the true potential of the mind and the body. I don’t think people realise they walk around in a haze most of the time – a haze of busyness and decreased energy due to too much food or too much poor food or a million other things. This theory’s incomplete as yet (I’m gathering data so please send me your thoughts!) and I don’t mean to sound pompous but I think most people think they feel good. And they do! I’m not saying they don’t feel good. But just that feeling “good” has so many different levels of experience! I thought I felt “good” for the longest time but over the years different practices (fasting’s just one of them) have shown me greater and greater levels of “good”. What I thought was feeling “good” was really just feeling “OK”.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with feeling OK (indeed feeling OK is a heck of a lot better than feeling crappy!) but what if you could feel “amazing” and “incredible” and “uplifted” and “energised” and “vibrantly alive” each and every moment? I think you can. I guess that’s why I’m so committed to the cause of better health and wellbeing. I think too many of us settle for feeling “OK” perhaps not knowing it is possible to feel any other way. Imagine the potential of a world where every human on it felt “vital” and “pumped” and “charged” and “free”! What a blissful place our planet would be…
I’m sure you know what I mean, Health is such a subjective thing. Entirely personal. No amount of convincing from someone else can tell me that I feel “crappy” when I actually feel “good”. And also, no amount of self-talk and verbalisation can convince me that I feel “awesome” when I really feel like going back to bed (no matter how much positive thinking and affirmations I throw at myself!).
Continuing along this path… as a health coach, no amount of convincing from you that you feel “good” will convince me that you really do feel “good” if I see dark circles under your eyes or a slumped posture or a cold sore or you rubbing your temples. I’ll know. Your body will tell me in no uncertain terms that you’re probably a bit less than “OK” in reality even though your mouth may be saying you feel “good”.
I think the point I’m making here has got something to do with how easy it is for us to get a taste of “incredible”. Just stop eating and give your body a break for a few days! It’s a strange thought… that food clouds us, makes us hazy and less than what we are and an entirely experiential view I don’t think I can convince anyone of until they have a subjective experience of it themselves. Words are utterly inadequate to describe my current state of clarity, creativity and aliveness so I think I’ll stop trying…