Soulsong #476 – Should I Fast and Cleanse?
Perhaps I’ve considered not eating for a day or more and at the same time using herbs and other food supplements to flush toxins out of my system. The goal is to cleanse my liver, colon, and other organs of unhealthy substances that accumulate.
There is value in any process that causes me to expect better health, but my body actually knows how to cleanse and detoxify itself. It’s doing it - or trying to do it - this moment. My body is designed to handle anything the environment or less than optimal nutrition may throw at it. My physical being is an utter miracle of adaptability.
The only obstacle to my body’s operating with peak resiliency is my pattern of thought. When I regularly give attention to what I perceive to be wrong with my life and/or wrong with the world, I somewhat close the valve through which my well-being flows from my Source. It is this well-being that keeps my body purring and humming. When this well-being is compromised, I become vulnerable.
Today I fast from thoughts of resentment, self-pity, guilt, blame, regret, and worry. I begin to cleanse myself of habits of criticism, complaining, and combativeness.
Unless I clean up my thought patterns, other cleansing regimens probably won’t have the effect I desire. If I DO clean up my thought patterns, any regimen I undertake will be the right one.
Copyright 2007, Karen Williams
