Cleansing Principles

Overused and abused, the term "detoxification" is often associated with a change in diet. This is misleading, however, because detoxification occurs only when that dietetic or lifestyle change results in the excretion of accumulated waste matter and its by-products. This is a two-part process of awakening and releasing stored toxic waste. Intelligently applied alkaline substances, with the help of colonics and deep sweats, work with the body's waste management team to reconstitute and awaken acidic matter and show the waste matter to the door. Detoxification has not occurred unless and until the waste leaves the body.

When we cleanse, we must awaken and remove not only the deep waste matter that has become embedded in the bodily tissue, but also the by-products of this waste. These are yeast, fungus (yeast is simply a single-celled fungus), carbonic gas, and life-deteriorating bacteria (unlike the good bacteria, or intestinal flora).

Carbonic gas occurs as soon as fermentation begins to take place. This happens anytime a substance enters your system and stays for too long. Carbonic gas invades the body on a deep cellular level, and creates a cleansing blockage in many ways: it prevents waste from moving freely out of the cells and tissues; it prevents waste from moving out of the colon, even during colon irrigation; and it prevents the body from contracting the way you would like. Apart from causing physical discomfort, it also becomes evident in the form of sagging skin, sagging facial tissue, thickened hips and waistline, and doughy musculature. You can begin to move this gas by making sure to keep your meals and newly awakened waste moving, through light-to-heavy, quick-exit eating. Anything that sits will ferment, so keep the focus on light and water-rich meals that are combined properly and consumed in an order that ensures movement.

All physical life is microbial, some life-generating and some life-annihilating (or, as I like to call them, "rogue"). Rogue, life-deteriorating bacteria grows wherever there is stagnation. Make no mistake: there is plenty of "good" bacteria that we want the body to keep. Healthy intestinal flora will aid the body in moving awakened waste and processing new waste. But the agents of decay, deteriorating bacteria, is what results when waste is not moving but instead sitting and festering. It commonly leads to bacterial infections, cystic acne, and slowed healing. By keeping waste moving, and changing the focus of our meals to whole, clean foods, we can reduce the accumulation of these rogue bacteria and start to cleanse what we have already accumulated.

Alkaline substances: Substances with a negative ionic charge (more electrons on the atomic belt than there are protons in the nucleus). These are the most desirable, life-generating substances. They conduct abundant life force energy and promote healing! These include all properly grown, fresh-picked fruits and vegetables, and their juices, raw young coconuts, mother's milk for babies, sunlight, clean air (think oceans, forests, and mountains), clean water, and all that promotes peace, joy, love, and inner connectivity.

Acidic substances: Substances with a positive ionic charge (more protons in the nucleus than electrons on the atomic belt). This charge is carried by all unnatural, synthetic substances, including wall-to-wall carpeting, pollution, electromagnetic radiation (such as TVs, computers, cell phones, etc.), all processed foods (such as soy, flour, meat, dairy, candy, coffee, etc.), and all that promotes acidic emotions and experiences.

This might seem like an obvious term. Not so! People tend to assume that whatever is sold as food is human food. In fact, truly human food is a much shorter list. Food that is truly human implies that we would consume it, seamlessly assimilate and conduct its nutrients and then fully eliminate what remains through our bowel, skin and other eliminative organs. The foods that fit that bill are raw fruits and vegetables and their juices, raw young coconuts and mother's milk when we are babies.

There are many other foods outside this category that we can consume and you are even expected to consume even though they are not so purely perfect. Some, like cooked vegetables, are harmless and then there are others that only mildly compromise our systems such as raw goat and sheep's cheeses, wild fish, organic free-range eggs, some whole and sprouted grains and even occasionally wild game, but they do run the risk of sticking slightly in the cells and tissues and taxing the organs to greater and lesser degrees based on how we combine them and what our intestinal fortitude is. But true human food is a narrow category and not what most people think it is.

These lesser offensive substances mentioned above should be consumed in the context of a life where one consumes raw green vegetable juice daily, enjoys healthy bowel eliminations, drinks living spring water, breathes clean, alkaline air, and receives adequate daily sunlight.

You can enjoy a great variety of foods if you enjoy them in this framework. The body just needs support processing the more dense and acidic substances. It's also advisable to include foods that are not completely pure because we need to give ourselves the opportunity to detoxify slowly and safely, and break away from the addictive nature of modern eating.

Cooked vegetables, raw nuts, dairy, and even small amounts of chocolate and wine make our lifestyles compatible with the modern world and help gently detoxify the modern body.