Cleansing Saved My Life - Archived Post

Cleansing Saved  My Life - Originally Posted on 2/4/13 
Readers: I thought it helpful to re-post this blog entry from one year ago:

As some of you know from reading my previous post, at the end of December I was hit by a car while walking and have been beautifully healing my body since.

What I did not share was that at the time, I was in the middle of leading a week-long holiday cleanse. I had just finished Day Five of Master Cleanser and had two days left to go. It felt fabulous to give my digestive system a rest from all the holiday food, right smack in the middle of the month (you might have seen the photo of my pre-cleanse Curry Sweet Potato Latkes). I was then planning to move into Christmas and New Year's, continuing to enjoy the food and traditions of the holiday season.

And then this unexpected event occurred...

The hospital report said: "Woman in good health and well nourished," and I smiled with recognition. Thank you, G-d, I said. I read this a few days after I got home. Because I had not eaten solid foods for five days, I was able to continue my cleanse to the best of my ability, even while in the hospital. I asked my dear friend and health counselor Karyn to bring me my last prepared mason jar of Master Cleanser, still sitting on my kitchen counter, along with a quart of green juice, some kale salad and raw almonds. Because I had had a concussion, I was only allowed liquids initially. These consisted of apple juice, cranberry juice, jello and hot water with a tea bag and lemon. I think there might have been some milk as well. I knew that these would not be the foods I would drink to heal my body at home, nor would I recommend them to anyone trying to heal, so I thanked them for bringing it, drank the hot water with lemon and pushed the trays aside. Instead, I sipped my remaining quart of Master Cleanser, drank my quart of green juice and ate my container of raw kale salad and a few almonds. This is all that I had over those couple of days, and I felt well nourished. Because I had gone without solid food for the five preceding days, I was easily able to do this and feed my body what it craved for healing. It gave me clarity, focus and energy; all that I needed.

When I got home, I felt so indebted to Stanley Burroughs and the Master Cleanser, written in the nineteen seventies and still holding up to this day as a powerful healing cleanse, that each day for the next few days, I made myself one quart of it, a modified cleanse, and sipped it with gratitude and deep, loving connection. I could hardly navigate around my kitchen but nothing stopped me from making that one jar of Master Cleanser each day. I am very clear that a major component to my being here today is that cleanse. My body was in a strong and clean place when this happened, and that was the greatest protection I could have had. Because of being on the cleanse, I was able to stay with that level of healing even though I had been hurt. Moving slowly around my kitchen, I focused on preparing this life force for myself each day.

Once being home, I continued to nourish myself with a mix of raw and macrobiotic foods; raw by day to cleanse, alkalize, release and build my entire body, and macro in the evening to warm my injuries and circulate the blood to eliminate inflammation. My dear friend and health colleague Sonia Maldonado counseled me to bring in warmth, and every day she made me home-brewed teas with fresh lavender, ginger and cayenne. I drank quarts of these, along with more quarts of green juice. She also made me homemade body butters with jojoba, fresh geranium and lavender  to rub all over my body, especially in the injured areas (So Naturals by Sonia). I included a ton of cayenne in everything I ate, and my body ate it up, receiving the warmth and circulation.

I coated myself with Young Living essential oils from the time I was in the hospital onward, and they healed and protected my entire body; skin is our largest organ through which we can receive healing. I used Thieves oil as an antibiotic and Purification to heal stitches and scrapes; other oils for healing bone.

These days I am eating a lot of chlorella to not only blast my body with chlorophyl and oxygen, but also to let go of whatever might have been left from x-rays and scans. I put it right on my raw granola or kale salad. There are many additional tools I have been using in my journey of healing, but all support the same process; cleansing my body and my psyche from this trauma.

I remember how I felt holding that last jar of Master Cleanser; the one I sipped in the hospital. I felt like it was God's holy water here to bless me and keep me strong. The emotional connection I had with that elixir is something I'm not sure I can ever really explain properly; deep, definitely, sacred, without a doubt; loving, so much so; moving, to tears; but truly, what cleansing has now become for me is life saving.