ARE YOU TOXIC?

There are various levels and various degrees of toxicity that contribute to overall poor emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

FOOD

Let’s begin with the obvious…food or what I call “non-food.”  This accounts for 95% of the shelf space in your local grocery store.  When you ingest non-food including inorganic, processed, or inhumanly treated products, you are creating dullness, deadness, and toxicity in your body.  This stresses the digestive system especially the liver and food can no longer be broken down to its smallest level, absorbed into the blood stream, and ultimately excess eliminated as waste.  Instead, these molecules are stored largely in the fat cells.    Additionally, they clog the capillaries, veins, and arteries.  Eating good for a short period of time will improve the quality of your blood and thin the blood thereby facilitating the release of some stored materials.  Sadly, eating good on a regular basis is rare in our culture.  We constantly run into treats, special occasions, and lack of willpower.  If you do eat well only on occasion, your taxed system is not able to effectively metabolize all of the good stuff you have taken the time to prepare and eat.  It’s like putting nice wood on a wet fire.

The Elemental Cleanse teaches you what food is and what food is not.  It gives you the emotional tools that you need to overcome deep-seated habits and addictions that are culturally acceptable.  These include sugar, alcohol, and processed foods.  You will learn to recognize the looping patterns in your mind and the “stress” events that trigger them.  You are supported in group and have the opportunity to work with a Certified Cleanse Coach if you desire additional support to bust these habits.

The Elemental Cleanse is an education in the qualities of food.  Our mindset is to look at calories in and calories out, do the math, and then become frustrated that we are not losing weight and not shifting disease.  The problem with this methodology is that calories were never intended to measure how your unique body and digestive system processes food.  If calories in/out works, then please explain all the people you know who can eat huge quantities of food and never gain a pound.  Explain the friend who has been on a restrictive period for a very long period of time and is still not losing weight.  It simply doesn’t work.  You will learn to use your five senses when picking out food and be able to determine if a food item is grounding you or uplifting you.

ENVIRONMENT

This is the one I worry about because there is little that I can do about air quality and environmental toxins and our environment is becoming increasingly toxic. The news is bleak.  There are new warnings against eating farmed salmon because of PCBs, DDT levels across the country are rising due to the influx of fruit and vegetables from other countries, and we breathe in the pollution from burining coal.   These toxins are known carcinogens and have been associated with hormone disruption, immune system suppression, reproductive disorders, several types of cancer and other disorders.

Most environmental toxins (including the ones mentioned above) are fat-soluble, which means that when they enter the body they attach themselves to the lipid layers that surround each cell. Western science knows of no way to safely remove them from the body.  Many of these toxins cause cancer, disrupt hormones, suppress the immune system and disrupt the reproductive process.

EMOTION

Moving on to the not so obvious…okay, it’s obvious in that we know stress is bad for us.  Stress, however, is not just bad for you, it is the root cause of your illness including weight gain.  Happy people don’t emotionally eat.  Happy people don’t suffer from the same degree of illness as non-happy people.  If you don’t take care of your mind, it doesn’t matter what you put in your body.  That’s why you see 95% of diets fail.  In Ayurveda, we have a term called “   “.  It means a crime against the intellect.  In other words, it’s when you knowingly make a choice for your body, mind, or life that harms you.  You choose to harm yourself using the intellect.  An example would be to eat red meat daily.  We know it is full of saturated fat, causes high cholesterol and heart disease.  This is common knowledge, yet we continue to eat it even after we have been diagnosed with high cholesterol!  Some people, in fact, have to have a wake up call in the form of a heart attack to stop harming themselves with food.

The Elemental Cleanse will teach you to manage and release your stress.  In fact, you are taken on a journey from childhood through old age releasing the past and intending for the future.  You will begin to notice those voices in your head; the critic, the complainer, and the pessimist and be empowered to turn the switch to off.  You will learn to meditate and establish a practice that will embrace for life.  You are going to get really quiet and go deep within.

The Elemental Cleanse will connect you with your life’s purpose.  You are here for a reason and have a job to do.  If you can literally marry the things you are good at, passionate about, and get lost in with your job, you are set for life!

SPIRIT

Moving on to the not obvious on any level.  You are a spiritual creature having a human experience. We spend our whole lives from birth until death trying to realize this.  Maybe we aren’t aware that we are trying to realize this.  In that event, we spend a whole life looking outside of ourselves for happiness.  We enter relationships, jobs, school systems, neighborhoods, and shopping malls all in an attempt to find meaning and value in our life.  We eat, drink, and consume substances trying to ground and nourish this energy completely unaware that what we are really doing is “outsourcing.”  Outsourcing is the term I use for looking outside of your self for meaning.  It works for a short period of time and then you are right back to suffering.  Stop looking outside of yourself.

The Elemental Cleanse will show you how to tap into your spiritual nature in a disciplined and matter of fact way.  There doesn’t have to be any magic or spookiness to having a relationship and tangible conversation with Spirit.  It is your birthright.

 

Signs and Symptoms of Toxicity

aches & pains

acid reflux

acne

anger

arthritis

bleeding gums

cellulite

constipation

depression

diabetes

diarrhea

dizziness

drowsiness

dry skin, hair, and nails

emotional problems

excess sleep

fatigue

fear and worry

feeling grief or loss

feeling hopeless

feeling lonely

feeling overwhelmed

feeling spacey

feeling stressed

feeling stuck in a situation

feeling unhappy in marriage

feeling unhappy in relationship

feeling unsatisfied at work

gas and bloating

headaches

hemorrhoids

high cholesteral

hormonal imbalance

I am financially suffering

I am getting divorced

I drink more than 2 cups of coffee a day

I drink more than 3 servings of alcohol each week

I drink soda

I eat conventional produce

I eat fast food

I eat fried food

I eat more than three servings of meet each week

I eat out a lot

I feel burdened by life

I smoke

impotence

inability to conceive

inability to concentrate

inability to lose weight

inability to make up your mind

indigestion

insomnia

interrupted sleep

irritability

Lethargy

loss of memory

loss of sexual desire

low energy

menstrual irregularities

mental disturbance

mood swings

mucas in stool

muscle aches

PMS

premature aging

problems with teeth

psoriasis

rashes

recurrent infections

restlessness

rosacea

sinus congestion

sluggish elimination

swelling

visual distortions or spots in front of eyes

visual problems

weakness

weakness

weight gain

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*The sole purpose of these articles is to provide information about the tradition of ayurveda, yoga, and meditation. This information is not intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of any disease. If you have any serious acute or chronic health concern, please consult a trained health professional who can fully assess your needs and address them effectively. Check with your doctor before taking herbs or using essential oils when pregnant or nursing.