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Fasting Day 11

I know, I kno…I’m sure anyone reading this is saying either why is she so into this fasting thing or why is she fasting AGAIN? I usually just avoid the question or give a vague response, but today I feel inspired to explain it. And really it should not be called ‘fasting’ so much as it is ‘cleansing.’ I’m not just ‘starving myself’ as a lot of people think – I am giving my body a chance to clean itself from the inside out, to clean the blood, every organ, every cell and even the mind. Anyone who has done it knows exactly how amazing you feel during and after a fast, and I do not know one person who has regretted doing it. To the followers of conventional medicine, I know it seems totally radical, but I can assure you that it is not. What is radical, in my opinion, is having unnecessary surgery to remove a diseased organ when you can clean it out yourself naturally and keep it inside your body t o do what it was meant to do!

So many people suffer from long-term illness and chronic conditions that constantly manifest into new ailments with no end in sight. The doctors and pharmaceutical companies make billions from you continuing to go back to them with the next complaint. It is an endless cycle as long as you continue to eat what you eat and never stop to clean yourself out. One simple 7-day fast would make a world a difference and help people start to form new eating patterns, but they would rather have their comfort food and suffer in other ways. It is all related to what you put in your body – whether it’s a persistent cough, psoriasis, IBS or even cancer. And if you think you are eating well, believe me you have no idea! Do one 7-day fast and see how much impacted mucoid plaque comes out of your colon and you will see for yourself what you’ve eaten and allowed to fester in there for so long! And your body will be so grateful to get rid of it, believe me.

I suffered for 2.5 years with terrible side effects from the flavour enhancer ribonuceotides or 635. I thought I was eating healthy during that time, but I was wrong. I felt awful during that entire time. For over 2 years I had no energy and no desire to live. I was just miserable from this horribly itchy rash. A lot of people though I was crazy, that the rash was psychosomatic. Well they were wrong. It was all due to a chemical that food companies have deemed safe for human consumption. I feel so very fortunate that I finally figured out what was the cause, or my own mind you as the doctors were totally useless. And now I am here to reclaim my health, to get my body back to the state of health and vitality that it was before I was sick. I worked in a really shithouse job (thanks to my horrible bosses in housekeeping at Lizard Island Resort) for nearly a year in order to save the money to get back here. Because I knew that if I didn’t do this that in another year I would have a new ailment as a direct result of my body being toxic. That’s the way the body works?if it is toxic your organs will all slowly have less and less function because they can’t handle they new load of toxins that are entering them every day through the food we eat and air we breathe. It’s just like a filter in a car or air conditioner – when it is full of crap the whole system gets backed up and doesn’t work as well. Same for your body, and the way to clean your ‘filter’ is to do a fast/cleanse with colonic irrigation.

I know that even after writing all of that most people will say, yeah yeah, well if she knows the answer is that simple, why hasn’t my doctor told me? Simple, mate. He does not make a dime from you getting well on your own. That’s the cold hard truth.

If anyone wants to judge me for what I am doing that’s ok with me. You may not know anyone who has ever fasted before, but how many people do you know with diabetes, cancer, lupus, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, celiac disease, Chrone’s disease or have had their gallbladder removed? The numbers keep growing, and will continue to do so until people take responsibility for their own health, learn to clean themselves out, and rebuild their health with fruits, vegetables and unprocessed food. As Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine, said himself:

‘Let Food be Thy Medicine, and Medicine by Thy Food.’

I know that what I am doing is the single best gift I can give to myself. I feel very grateful that I found out about all this cleansing stuff years ago when my friend Cathy gave me a book about it that she bought at a yard sale. The book was called ‘Cleanse and Purify Thyself’ by Dr. Richard Anderson. And I feel fortunate to be in a place like Koh Samui that allows me to do what I am doing for not that much money. When I first came here 5 years ago, there was only 2 spas here doing this program. Now there are at least 5 or 6. It’s getting more popular as more people are willing to try it, which is a good sign to me that people are beginning to wake up. Maybe someday I’ll even have my own spa, who knows?

Well that is the fasting rant and rave for this cleanse – I promise not to get on the soapbox about it again, but when I start I just can’t stop as you can see. On a lighter note, I saw a funny sign the other day – a first for me – it said ‘Pedicure Takeout.’ What exactly is that????

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I’m feeling bored of my life. I want to do something special.

Well I haven’t moved very far since my last entry…I am still here on this island in Southern Thailand. I have been very busy though – it’s amazing how busy you can be when you’re not working actually! After I finished my fast I spent a week eating delicious healthy food and relaxing, and then I got straight into it. I started a Hand Reflexology course which I have since finished, and it was really a good course. I took the course with Sarah and Jackeh, 2 English people who have been living in Taiwan for the last year teaching English. At the same time I started doing a new website for a friend of mine as a sort of exchange in lieu of money. I am getting my massage classes for free and he’s getting a website. It’s a great idea in theory, but people who have never done a website have no idea how much work is behind it. I spent ten days working on it and that was my limit. I started to remember what being in front of a computer all day feels like – how terrible! I’m not sure how I managed to have the time to do a site for someone else when I have not had the time to re-do my own in the last two years, but life does get in the way of everything, doesn’t it?

What else – well I started offering Chinese Cupping here as a way to hopefully fund my stay. It’s a great treatment to help release toxins from the body, and everybody at the Spa is here for just that, so I am hoping that I have a good base of customers. For those of you who don’t know what Cupping is, here is a bit of my spiel:

Cupping is a traditional therapy that remains favored by millions of people throughout the world because it is a time-honored, safe, comfortable and effective treatment for many health disorders. Cupping is a technique used in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for certain health conditions. Glass or bamboo cups are placed on the skin with suction, which is believed to influence the flow of both Qi and Blood throughout the body and or meridians.

So that has been really good. In between that I have been trying to go for walks on the beach, get massage (of course), eat healthy food, read a bit, and socialize. It’s quite a schedule!

Now I am back fasting again, hopefully for the last time during my stay here, but there are still more toxins to get rid of and I’m here and I have the time, so why not? I am now on my fourth day of a still undetermined length of time (Everyone keeps asking me how long?? You just have to take it day by day and listen to your body.) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I did a liver/gallstone flush in between there somewhere and I had really strong cleansing reactions to that (was quite sick for a few days after), so I know the liver is an area for me that needs more work, i.e. another reason for fasting again.

The timing could not have been more perfect for this new fast to begin. I had 6 Italian guys staying at the same place as me for over 2 weeks, and every night they came home at all hours with Thai prostitutes and were just generally very loud and very annoying. When the prostitutes left in the morning they would sit around and laugh about them which made it even worse. I never spoke to them or even looked at them – what total scum. And what’s really sad is that there are so many otherwise normal foreigners here doing exactly the same thing. They look like nice, clean-cut mama’s boys but they are just out here paying as little as they can for sex. And yes I know these guys were paying so little because I heard them negotiating the price outside my room on multiple occasions. Welcome to Thailand. Anyway they left the first day I started my fast. Thank you!

On a good note, I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up on movies and tv shows that I’ve missed while living on an island, and Thailand is the perfect pirated-DVD heaven for that. If the movie isn’t all that good, I highly suggest turning on the English subtitles and watching the film with an entirely new script. You see, these DVDs here come out while the movie is still in the theatres so the subtitles have to be written or created by a computer program. They don’t always get the exact translation, and the result can be highly entertaining. I will leave you with an excerpt from the film ‘Be Cool’ starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman., a movie I can only recommend as a pure comedy when the subtitles are on. The following dialogue between them goes with the ‘real’ conversation first followed by how the subtitles played it:

Edie?
Chili?

So glad you came.
How are you doing?

Well, you were right there when it happened weren’t you?
Well, I was in the Men’s.

But you were with him in his last hour.
I’ve had him cremated and I want to do something special with his ashes, you know, something he would like. Do you have any ideas?
Well, nothing that makes sense.

Say, Edie, is that an Aerosmith tattoo on your back?
Yeah, you know I followed them on tour, right.
So you were a groupie?
No man, much worse. I did their laundry.
They traveled with their own washer and dryer.

Lily?
John?

Are you looking for me?
Are you ok?

Ah, you know my problem.
I can help you with nothing.

I’m feeling bored of my life. I want to do something special. I need a genius idea.
Couldn’t be.

Lily, don’t you it’s hurt?
No, you know that.

You cook for yourself?
That sucks.
I’m not interested of others.

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