Energy Detox: for better health
Do you experience uncomfortable side effects (such as
headaches, nausea, and/or skin problems) when "doing a detox"? Do you wonder why you
can feel worse when detoxifying?
Side effects are due to the toxins
being released from inside the cells but unable to come out of the body. Tremendous
amounts of physical, emotional, and mental toxins are released when we fast or even
just cut out coffee or wheat and dairy products.
The Energy Detox also creates detoxification on a daily, hourly,
even minute-by-minute basis.
But will toxicity released from inside the cells
actually be able to leave the body? Not if the body has been toxic for
decades! And you will know that your body is toxic because you
cannot have a health problem unless you have been accumulating toxins for
a very long time indeed.
We can feel worse during a detox because the
main routes
of elimination will not be working properly in a body with health
problems. As a result, the released toxins get backed-up in the "waterways" of the body (lymph and blood). Notice when your toxic picture
is showing. It is different
for each person: it could be an incredible urge to eat sugar or to binge,
nausea, fatigue, feeling "fluey", diarrhea, depression, migraines/
headaches, inability to sleep at night, lethargy, irritability or extreme
mood swings, itchy skin, eczema or asthma attacks. It could be a
cold or even flu, sometimes flare-ups of chronic conditions like arthritis
or hay fever.
Healing is really about release. Release, at its deepest physical
level, opens up and cleanses the cells in the body, thus allowing more
movement and freedom. Thus cleansing equals release, movement, freedom.
The cells are enabled to open up and release the toxicity that has been
accumulating and is stuck inside.
The catch, however,
is that in these stressed and polluted times, our bodies are
no longer functioning optimally. Although "stuck" toxins come out through
the cell walls (membranes) and into the body fluids (blood and lymph), we
may not be able to get that toxicity out of the body. Toxins hanging
around in the fluids create symptoms. Unpleasant symptoms. This
is why people can experience symptoms during detoxification and cleansing
processes.
These can be bad enough to be called a
"healing crisis" which really reflects your toxic picture: whatever you
are like when you are feeling worse than usual. There is nothing
particularly good about a healing crisis. Any fool can create one (and
too many therapists do).
It
means that our bodies have released toxins at a rate faster than our main
routes of elimination can process them out of the body. The skill
actually lies in avoiding a "healing crisis" by matching the rate of
elimination from inside the cells to the rate at which it can leave the
body. (Thus, a healing crisis is often a sign of a mismanaged
cleansing.)
It is possible to have very uncomfortable symptoms
whilst undertaking
Energy Detox
although it
usually means that the body is so desperate to detox that it is
overwhelming the main routes of elimination for a while (see "your
toxic picture" above).
What can you do at these times to help out
your body? The best way is to increase your
water intake substantially. One of the most important things you can do to help your
body during detoxification phases is to drink more water.
Water is usually the most
valuable thing possible to help your body through this time. This is
because increased cleansing results in more demand for water. One function
of water is as a universal solvent to assist elimination as well as
detoxification.
Drink plain, clean (not tap/faucet) water with
nothing added to it - no fizz, flavoring, or sugar much less tea, coffee,
alcohol, juice or the like. The daily minimum should be 4 pints (2 litres)
during normal times (more during exercise or hot weather): with
uncomfortable symptoms during detoxing, it could be helpful to double this
minimum.
The information provided is intended for educational purposes;
it is not to be construed as providing medical advice or
substituting for professional services.
