The moment you decide to join the Conscious Cleanse retreat, the healing begins.
Preparing for your journey will be extremely beneficial to support your body and mind in the transition away from food and your current ways of being. As a general rule of thumb, the more your prepare yourself, the softer the transition will be.
The Ayahuasca retreat will certainly be the perfect preparation for your Conscious Cleanse experience. Otherwise, here are some tips to consider at least two weeks before you arrive.
Eliminate or reduce your consumption of:
- Animal proteins, especially cooked. These are difficult for you to digest and your body will cleanse better if you haven’t been eating them before your fast.
- Snack foods. Most all prepared and processed foods are heavily salted and with loads of chemicals.
- Additional salt and sugar to any of your foods. This includes staying away from artificial sweeteners (aspartame products) and foods flavored with them.
- Fried foods. The oils in fried foods are usually rancid from heating and difficult for your body to work with. Use only cold pressed and chemical free oils in moderation.
- Dairy. Milk, cheese and ice cream are highly mucus forming and many people have health problems related to milk. You will be cleansing much of the mucus from your body during your cleanse, so the less you have, the better.
- Coffee, black tea, alcohol, soft drinks and canned, bottled and packaged juices. Caffeine will often lead to headaches and irritability during your cleanse.
- Airplane food. Most of it is heavily salted, made with rancid oils and also preserved with chemicals. Ordering a fruit plate on all your flights will help you ease into and out of the fast.
More Suggestions:
These suggestions are ideals to start creating awareness and planting seeds moving you in the direction of higher vibration foods. Be gently with yourself. You will find that these foods and habits will naturally become a part of your life as a result of your participation of the retreat.
- Drink water, herb teas or fresh fruit and vegetable juices as long as you like. When you are ready to eat your first meal is the best time to eat. Good breakfasts are fresh fruit, your own homemade porridge, your own homemade muesli with your homemade nut or seed milks, salads, smoothies, and fermented nuts or seed cheeses on sprouted bread.
- Consider buying a juicer. Fresh made juice made of vegetables/fruits of any combination: carrot, cucumber, apple, celery, ginger, pineapple and beet root are the greatest gift of love for your body.
- Make it your motto to eat foods as close to their natural state as possible, this means eating: fresh fruit raw or juiced, fresh sprouted, raw or juiced vegetables, salads and lightly steamed vegetables, quinoa, millet brown rice (non gluttonous grains), daily milled and freshly baked whole grain breads, baked potatoes (once in a while). Eat fruit that is: 1. grown locally, 2. that is in season, 3. that is tree/vine ripened.
- Start by combining your food properly. Try to eat fruits alone, not for deserts or with nuts, grains or yogurt. This is because fruit digests very quickly and mixing it with anything else will slow its digestion causing fermentation. Don’t mix complex carbohydrates and animal proteins together for the same basic reason, they don’t work well together and inhibit proper digestion.
- Begin to become aware of how much you are eating. Your mind takes 20 minutes to register how full you are, so see if you can take your time and eat mindfully.
- Bless your food! This is so powerful. For many, it has become a ritual with very little awareness or presence. This is an opportunity for you to let go of everything in your life, bring yourself back to this moment, and express your gratitude for all of the beings involved in bringing this food that you are about to enjoy before you. We will go much deeper with this transformation experience during our time together, but for now, simply stop for a second and express what is in your heart.
- Take time each day to connect with higher yourself in peace and quiet. Drink in nourishment for your soul. You may want to meditate, read inspirational thoughts or remind yourself of all of the things you are grateful for in your life.
- Enjoy the Journey. Know that it is all unfolding perfectly. Allow it to unfold with effortless ease. Remember, we are moving away from dis-ease and toward ease.
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